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'''Mira Nair''' (born [[October 15]] [[1957]] at [[Rourkela]], [[India]]) is an [[India]]-born, [[New York]]-based [[film director]]. Her production company is [[Mirabai Films]]. |
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She was educated at [[Delhi University]] and [[Harvard University]]. Her debut feature film, ''[[Salaam Bombay!]]'', won the [[Golden Camera]] award at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] and also earned the [[Academy award|Oscar]] nomination for best foreign film. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter [[Sooni Taraporevala]], whom she met at Harvard. She is awarded [[India Abroad]] 'Person of the Year-2007'. The award was presented by [[Indra Nooyi]], Chairperson and CEO, [[PepsiCo]], Inc, and [[India Abroad]] 'Person of the Year-2006'[http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/mar/29iapoy.htm]. |
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==Early life== |
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Mira [[Nair]] was born in [[Rourkela]],<ref>[http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=130459 Mira Nair interview with Indian Express]</ref> [[Orissa]], where her Punjabi father, Nayyar, she spells her surname Nair (having his roots in [[Amritsar]], [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]]) was employed. She was the youngest of three children from a middle-class family. Her father was a [[civil servant]] and her mother a social worker. |
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Mira did her early schooling at a boarding school in [[Shimla]] known as [[Loreto Convent]]. She studied sociology in [[Delhi University]], where she became involved in political street theater and performed for three years in an amateur drama company. She left for the US at age 19 with a scholarship at [[Harvard]], where she met her first husband [[Mitch Epstein]], as well as [[Sooni Taraporevala]]. |
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==Career== |
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At the beginning of her career as a film artist, Nair directed four [[documentary film|documentaries]]. ''India Cabaret'', a film about the lives of strippers in a Bombay nightclub, won an award at the American Film Festival in 1986. |
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''[[Salaam Bombay!]]'' (1988), with a screenplay by [[Sooni Taraporevala]], was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film, and won many other awards. It is today considered a groundbreaking film classic, and is standard fare for film students. |
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The 1991 film ''[[Mississippi Masala]]'' starred [[Denzel Washington]] and [[Sarita Choudhury]], and profiled a family of displaced [[Uganda]]n-Indians living and working in [[Mississippi]]. The screenplay was again by [[Sooni Taraporevala]], and produced by Michael Nozik. |
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In 1995 her [[The Perez Family (film)|film adaption]] of the book [[The Perez Family (novel)|The Perez Family]], by Christine Bell, was released. The film starred [[Marisa Tomei]], [[Alfred Molina]], and [[Angelica Huston]], and was again produced by Michael Nozik. |
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She was also the director of the movie ''[[Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love]]'', a provocative movie set in 16th century [[India]]. |
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''My Own Country'' starring [[Naveen Andrews]], was produced for HBO films, adapted from the memoir by [[Abraham Verghese]] by [[Sooni Taraporevala]]. |
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Nair's most popular film to date, ''[[Monsoon Wedding]]'' (2001), about a chaotic [[Punjab, India|Punjabi]] Indian wedding with a screenplay by [[Sabrina Dhawan]], was awarded the prestigious [[Golden Lion|Golden Lion award]] at the [[Venice film festival]]. |
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Her 2004 version of [[William Makepeace Thackeray|Thackeray]]'s novel, ''[[Vanity Fair (2004 film)|Vanity Fair]]'', starred [[Reese Witherspoon]]. |
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Her latest film, ''[[The Namesake (film)|The Namesake]]'', premiered in the fall of 2006 at [[Dartmouth College]] where Nair was presented with the Dartmouth Film Award. Another premiere was held in fall 2006 with the Indo-American Cultural Council in New York. ''The Namesake'', adapted by [[Sooni Taraporevala]] from the novel by Pulitzer prize winner [[Jhumpa Lahiri]], was released in March 2007. |
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Her latest project is Maisha, a film lab to help [[East Africa]]ns and [[South Asians]] learn to make films. Maisha is headquartered in Nair's adopted home of [[Kampala]], [[Uganda]]. |
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Nair is also working on the big-budget [[Johnny Depp]]-starrer ''[[Shantaram (film)|Shantaram]]'' in [[India]], the [[U.K.]] and possibly [[Australia]]. The movie has been delayed due to the [[Writers Guild of America, East]] strike. She is also credited with directing a film in pre-production ''[[New York, I Love You]]'', a romantic-drama anthology of love stories set in New York. Her future film [[Impressionist]] is a coming-of-age story set in the Raj of the 1920s. |
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Nair will be honoured with the "Pride of India" award at the 9th Bollywood Film Awards later this year for her contributions to the film industry. [http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=a8b47023-270e-47f0-a6c2-399a750ab572&] |
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She has done a 12-minute movie on AIDS awareness (funded by The Gates Foundation) called [[Migration]]<ref>[http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/July/20070703095706lmlenuhret0.5317957.html Mira Nair’s latest film project takes the message to Indian cinema halls]</ref>[http://www.jaman.com/movie/Migration/0mPGmGr2oVoU/]. |
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==Personal life== |
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Nair lives near [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]] where she is an adjunct professor in the Film Division of the [[Columbia University School of the Arts|School of Arts]] and where her husband, Professor [[Mahmood Mamdani]], also teaches ([http://wwwapp.cc.columbia.edu/art/app/arts/film/viewFaculty.jsp]). Nair has been an enthusiastic [[yoga]] practitioner for decades; when making a film, she has the cast and crew start the day with a yoga session.<ref>[http://mirabaifilms.com/wordpress/?page_id=32 Mira Nair interview with International Herald Tribune]</ref> |
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Nair has one son, Zohran Mamdani, born in 1991, currently attending The [[Bronx High School of Science]]. |
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==Literature== |
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*Jigna Desai: ''Beyond [[Bollywood]]: The cultural politics of South Asian diasporic film''. New York: Routledge, 2004, 280 pp. ill. ISBN 0-415-96684-1 (inb.) / ISBN 0-415-96685-X (hft.) |
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*Gita Rajan: "Pliant and compliant: colonial Indian art and postcolonial cinema". ''Women''. Oxford (Print), ISSN 0957-4042 ; 13(2002):1, pp. 48–69. |
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*Alpana Sharma: "Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films". ''QRFV : Quarterly review of film and video'', ISSN 1050-9208 ; 18(2001):1, pp. 91–103. |
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*Pratibha Parmar: "Mira Nair: filmmaking in the streets of Bombay". ''Spare rib'', ISSN 0306-7971; 198, 1989, pp. 28–29. |
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*Gwendolyn Audrey Foster: ''Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity''. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8093-2120-3 |
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==Further reading== |
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* ''Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair'', by John Kenneth Muir. Published by Hal Leonard, 2006. ISBN 1557836493, 9781557836496. |
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== References == |
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== External links == |
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* [http://in.movies.yahoo.com/namesake-movie/ Mira Nair Interview on Yahoo! India Movies] (link broken as of May 12th, 2008) |
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* [http://www.sawnet.org/cinema/?Nair+Mira SAWNET biography] |
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* [http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Nair.html Biography] |
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* [http://www.maishafilmlab.com Maisha Film Lab] in Kampala, Uganda |
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* [http://lx.com/drinks/2007/03/01/mira-nair-award-winning-director-writer-producer/ Video Interview on LX.TV] |
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* [http://athome.harvard.edu/dh/cmn.html A Conversation with Mira Nair] - Harvard @ Home program |
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* [http://www.mirabaifilms.com/bio.html featured profile of Mira Nair] - on MirabaiFilms.com |
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*[http://sidewalkstv.com/specialfeatures/movies/namesake.html Video interview] with "The Namesake" director on ''[[Sidewalks Entertainment]]'' |
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Revision as of 05:16, 11 October 2008
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Mira Nair | |
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| Spouse | Mahmood Mamdani (? - present) |
Mira Nair (born October 15 1957 at Rourkela, India) is an India-born, New York-based film director. Her production company is Mirabai Films.
She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay!, won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the Oscar nomination for best foreign film. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard. She is awarded India Abroad 'Person of the Year-2007'. The award was presented by Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc, and India Abroad 'Person of the Year-2006'[1].
Early life
Mira Nair was born in Rourkela,[1] Orissa, where her Punjabi father, Nayyar, she spells her surname Nair (having his roots in Amritsar, Punjab) was employed. She was the youngest of three children from a middle-class family. Her father was a civil servant and her mother a social worker.
Mira did her early schooling at a boarding school in Shimla known as Loreto Convent. She studied sociology in Delhi University, where she became involved in political street theater and performed for three years in an amateur drama company. She left for the US at age 19 with a scholarship at Harvard, where she met her first husband Mitch Epstein, as well as Sooni Taraporevala.
Career
At the beginning of her career as a film artist, Nair directed four documentaries. India Cabaret, a film about the lives of strippers in a Bombay nightclub, won an award at the American Film Festival in 1986.
Salaam Bombay! (1988), with a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film, and won many other awards. It is today considered a groundbreaking film classic, and is standard fare for film students.
The 1991 film Mississippi Masala starred Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury, and profiled a family of displaced Ugandan-Indians living and working in Mississippi. The screenplay was again by Sooni Taraporevala, and produced by Michael Nozik.
In 1995 her film adaption of the book The Perez Family, by Christine Bell, was released. The film starred Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina, and Angelica Huston, and was again produced by Michael Nozik.
She was also the director of the movie Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, a provocative movie set in 16th century India. My Own Country starring Naveen Andrews, was produced for HBO films, adapted from the memoir by Abraham Verghese by Sooni Taraporevala.
Nair's most popular film to date, Monsoon Wedding (2001), about a chaotic Punjabi Indian wedding with a screenplay by Sabrina Dhawan, was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice film festival.
Her 2004 version of Thackeray's novel, Vanity Fair, starred Reese Witherspoon.
Her latest film, The Namesake, premiered in the fall of 2006 at Dartmouth College where Nair was presented with the Dartmouth Film Award. Another premiere was held in fall 2006 with the Indo-American Cultural Council in New York. The Namesake, adapted by Sooni Taraporevala from the novel by Pulitzer prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, was released in March 2007.
Her latest project is Maisha, a film lab to help East Africans and South Asians learn to make films. Maisha is headquartered in Nair's adopted home of Kampala, Uganda.
Nair is also working on the big-budget Johnny Depp-starrer Shantaram in India, the U.K. and possibly Australia. The movie has been delayed due to the Writers Guild of America, East strike. She is also credited with directing a film in pre-production New York, I Love You, a romantic-drama anthology of love stories set in New York. Her future film Impressionist is a coming-of-age story set in the Raj of the 1920s.
Nair will be honoured with the "Pride of India" award at the 9th Bollywood Film Awards later this year for her contributions to the film industry. [2]
She has done a 12-minute movie on AIDS awareness (funded by The Gates Foundation) called Migration[2][3].
Personal life
Nair lives near Columbia University in New York City where she is an adjunct professor in the Film Division of the School of Arts and where her husband, Professor Mahmood Mamdani, also teaches ([4]). Nair has been an enthusiastic yoga practitioner for decades; when making a film, she has the cast and crew start the day with a yoga session.[3]
Nair has one son, Zohran Mamdani, born in 1991, currently attending The Bronx High School of Science.
Literature
- Jigna Desai: Beyond Bollywood: The cultural politics of South Asian diasporic film. New York: Routledge, 2004, 280 pp. ill. ISBN 0-415-96684-1 (inb.) / ISBN 0-415-96685-X (hft.)
- Gita Rajan: "Pliant and compliant: colonial Indian art and postcolonial cinema". Women. Oxford (Print), ISSN 0957-4042 ; 13(2002):1, pp. 48–69.
- Alpana Sharma: "Body matters: the politics of provocation in Mira Nair's films". QRFV : Quarterly review of film and video, ISSN 1050-9208 ; 18(2001):1, pp. 91–103.
- Pratibha Parmar: "Mira Nair: filmmaking in the streets of Bombay". Spare rib, ISSN 0306-7971; 198, 1989, pp. 28–29.
- Gwendolyn Audrey Foster: Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity. Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8093-2120-3
Further reading
- Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair, by John Kenneth Muir. Published by Hal Leonard, 2006. ISBN 1557836493, 9781557836496.
References
External links
- Mira Nair Interview on Yahoo! India Movies (link broken as of May 12th, 2008)
- SAWNET biography
- Biography
- Mira Nair at IMDb
- Maisha Film Lab in Kampala, Uganda
- Video Interview on LX.TV
- A Conversation with Mira Nair - Harvard @ Home program
- featured profile of Mira Nair - on MirabaiFilms.com
- Video interview with "The Namesake" director on Sidewalks Entertainment