Director Mira Nair, lead actress Sarita Choudhury, and cinematographer Ed Lachman discuss Mississippi Masala, a Revivals selection at NYFF59, with writer Jhumpa Lahiri. The free talk, presented by HBO and sponsored by TCM took place at Damrosch Park following an outdoor screening of the new restoration from Janus Films.
Denzel Washington stars opposite Sarita Choudhury in Mira Nair’s second fiction feature, which endures as a seminal screen romance of the 1990s. Choudhury is Mina, a Ugandan Indian from Kampala whose family leaves Uganda after the implementation of Idi Amin’s policy of forcefully expelling all Asians from the country. They wind up in Greenwood, Mississippi, living with relatives and trying to reconcile the trauma of their involuntary exile with assimilating to American culture. Some 17 years pass before Mina falls for a self-employed carpet cleaner, Demetrius (Washington), and their romance puts them in conflict with the local Black and Indian-American communities—not to mention Mina’s family. At once a powerful parable and a deeply personal work, Mississippi Masala remains an incisive examination of race relations and the tension between passion and tradition.
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This talk is sponsored by Turner Classic Movies.
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