Studio Info/Running Time: Fox Searchlight, 122 mins. Based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake traces the slow, stilted assimilation of a couple who immigrate to ...
Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair has been renowned for films like Salaam Bombay!, Vanity Fair and many more. One of her critically acclaimed, artistically rich films, The Namesake, became the topic ...
Mira Nair returns to her interests in class and immigrant life in this loving adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel "The Namesake." Even when she brought Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" to the screen, Nair ...
Packed with female book club members, a screening of Mira Nair’s The Namesake left no doubt about the film’s target audience. If anyone’s going to flock to this warm and likable tale, it’s going to be ...