Movies directed by Mira Nair

Biography: 
Accomplished Film Director/Writer/Producer Mira Nair was born in India and educated at Delhi University and at Harvard. She began her film career as an actor and then turned to directing award-winning documentaries, including So Far From India and India Cabaret. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1988; it won the Camera D'Or  ...  show all 

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: ????? | Indira Varma | Sarita Choudhury | Ramon Tikaram | Naveen Andrews | Rekha | Khalid Tyabji | Arundhati Rao | Surabhi Bhansali | Garima Dhup | Pearl Padamsee | Kusum Haidar | Harish Patel | Ranjit Chowdhry | Achala Sachdev | Arjun Sajnani
Directors: Mira Nair
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Set in 16th Century India KAMA SUTRA is the tale of two girls, Maya and Tara, one a lowly servant, the other a noble princess, both raised together as children. But whilst Tara is raised as a Princess Maya, as her servant, is forever reminded of her subordinate position. It is though her striking beauty and her skills of seduction learnt through the Kama Sutra, the Indian book of love, that Maya exacts her revenge on Tara by seducing her husband on her wedding day thus beginning a destructive struggle for power where revenge is the goal, but tragedy the outcome.

Hysterical Blindness (2002)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Hysterical Blindness
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Uma Thurman | Gena Rowlands | Juliette Lewis | Justin Chambers | Ben Gazzara | Anthony DeSando | Jolie Peters | Callie Thorne | Jeff Aaron | Jeff Chena | Alex Draper | Russell Gibson | Charles LaPlaca | Wade Mylius | Rick Pisarro
Directors: Mira Nair
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In this bittersweet slice of working class single New Jersey life, best friends Debby and Beth (both pushing thirty) go looking for love in the wrong place – namely their favorite bar, Oliver’s. Rugged contractor Rick eyes Beth but ends up going home with the more assertive Debby. Beth’s style is further cramped by the responsibilities of single motherhood. As Debby tries to parlay what was essentially a casual fling into possible marriage with an indifferent Rick, her mother Virginia wonders if her affair with widower Nick is the real thing. Rounding out the romantic possibilities is Bobby, the bartender who flirts with Beth. The women clash as plans go awry, tragedy strikes, and hearts get broken. In the end, Debby, Beth, and Virginia find, if not the relationships of their dreams, peace with each other and within themselves.

Amelia (2009)

Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Amelia
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Keir Knight | Chun Hong Li | Bernard Martin | Jason Shipley-Holmes | Billy Smith | Andrea Boardman | Nancy Crowley | Mistaya Hemingway | Naomi Stikeman | Zophia Tujaka
Directors: Édouard Lock
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Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, an adventure that catapults her into aviation myth.

Vanity Fair (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Vanity Fair
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Gabriel Byrne | Angelica Mandy | Roger Lloyd-Pack | Ruth Sheen | Kate Fleetwood | Reese Witherspoon | Lillete Dubey | Romola Garai | Tony Maudsley | Deborah Findlay | John Franklyn-Robbins | Paul Bazely | Rhys Ifans | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Charlie Beall
Directors: Mira Nair
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

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The Namesake ()

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Namesake, The
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Irfan Khan | Kal Penn | Jagannath Guha | Ruma Guha Thakurta | Tabu | Sandip Deb | Sukanya | Tanusree Shankar | Sabyasachi Chakravarthy | Tamal Sengupta | Dhruv Mookerji | Supriya Choudhury | Stuart Rudin | Heather MacRae | Sumitra Kanti
Directors: Mira Nair
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While it travels by the train, around his grandfather in Jamshedpur to visit born Calcutta Bengale speech meets Ashoke Ganguli with the companion’s traveller, Ghosh which makes impression on him to travel, while Ashoke is deep in a book authored by Nicholai Gogol. The train suffers an accident, and after rest, Ashoke moves to America, sits down, returns home in 1977, around himself with the striving singer to marry Ashima and home returns to New York. Shortly after they will give birth to parents of a boy whom they call at the beginning Gogol and a few years later both Sonia. Then the family buys her own house in the suburbs and travels to India for the first time after her marriage. The second spot if they travel to India is if Gogol and Sonia are at her late teenager’s age, and after an unforgettable visit in Kolkata and then in the Taj Mahal, they return home. Gogol falls in love with Maxine Ratliff and moves in with her family, while Ashoke time travelling spends, and itself Sonia to California moved, Ashima everybody them alone leaving. The Ganguli family is determined to travel to India again soon – this spot under very different relations – and has suffered, finally, life-changing events.

Indem es mit dem Zug reist, um seinen Großvater in Jamshedpur, geborenes Kalkutta zu besuchen, Bengale-Sprechen trifft sich Ashoke Ganguli mit dem Gefährten-Reisenden, Ghosh, der auf ihn Eindruck macht, um zu reisen, während Ashoke in ein Buch authored durch Nicholai Gogol tief ist. Der Zug erleidet einen Unfall, und nachdem Erholung, Ashoke nach Amerika umzieht, sich niederlässt, nach Hause 1977 zurückkehrt, um sich mit dem strebenden Sänger, Ashima zu verheiraten, und nach Hause nach New York zurückkehrt. Kurz danach werden sie Eltern eines Jungen, den sie am Anfang Gogol nennen, und ein paar Jahre später beide Sonia zur Welt bringen. Die Familie kauft dann ihr eigenes Haus in den Vorstädten und reist nach Indien zum ersten Mal nach ihrer Ehe. Das zweite Mal, wenn sie nach Indien reisen, ist, wenn Gogol und Sonia in ihrem verstorbenen Teenageralter, und nach einem denkwürdigen Besuch in Kolkata und dann im Taj Mahal sind, kehren sie nach Hause zurück. Gogol verliebt sich in Maxine Ratliff und bewegt sich in mit ihrer Familie, während Ashoke Zeitreisen ausgibt, und sich Sonia nach Kalifornien bewegt, Ashima alle sie allein verlassend. Die Ganguli Familie wird bestimmt, um nach Indien wieder bald – dieses Mal unter sehr verschiedenen Verhältnissen zu reisen – und hat schließlich lebensändernde Ereignisse erlitten.