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Mira Nair: New Delhi
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Nair lives her life by similar principles. After leaving her hometown of Bhubaneswar, India, about 300 miles south of Calcutta, she moved to the United States to study film at Harvard. (She now splits her time between New York and Uganda).
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Nair was ... attracted to a unique chance to combine cinematic portraits of her two favorite cities on opposite sides of the globe: New York and Calcutta. "I saw an opportunity to unite these two equally exciting worlds that I know and love and have lived in all my life,†she says. "I also wanted to capture visually the dizzying feeling of being an immigrant where you might physically be in one particular space yet you feel like you are someplace else in your soul.†Here’s what Mira Nair had to tell us about her latest film:
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Beneath its starry high profile, though, "Shantaram" engages issues that have obsessed Nair throughout her career. For immigrants and their children, what is home? What is family? How do you forge a new cultural identity? "He is a man who disappears into the fabric of another place," Nair said about the Depp character in a recent conversation. Explaining the lure of the novel, she added: "The theme I'm most interested in is, can a foreigner be a native?
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