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Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway ...
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Mississippi Masala. Sarita Choudhury and Denzel Washington star in Mira Nair’s bighearted romance, set amongst the vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South —a sweet, sexy, and deeply satisfying celebration of love’s power that tackles thorny issues of racism, colorism, culture clash, and displacement with humor and keen insight.
May 25, 2022 · The possibility to live—and to love—across racial borders is the theme of Mira Nair’s extraordinarily prescient and sexy second feature film, Mississippi Masala (1991). Three decades later, it speaks to a new generation as groundbreaking filmic heritage—but also with an almost eerie, prophetic wisdom for how to live beyond the ...
Summaries. An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man. An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes.
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi.
Apr 13, 2022 · Published April 13, 2022 Updated April 14, 2022. Mira Nair’s “Mississippi Masala” begins with a bit of family history that is also a history lesson — the expulsion of Uganda’s sizable South...
Directed by Mira Nair • 1991 • United States, Uganda. Starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth. The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South come together in Mira Nair’s MISSISSIPPI MASALA, a luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot.
