Indu Viswanathan, an Indian-origin Hindu woman, has accused Zohran Mamdani's mother, Mira Nair, of Hinduphobia, citing prejudiced portrayals in her fi ...

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Nair used words that described the film as a kind of Rorschach test that, 12 years later, might also be applied to her son’s candidacy. “I made the film for this reason: dialogue,” she said.

Lupita Nyong'o is an alum of director Mira Nair's film lab, Maisha. — -- Director Mira Nair first moved to Uganda in 1989, when she made her film, "Mississippi Masala." She immediately ...

Monsoon Wedding and A Suitable Boy filmmaker Mira Nair has been announced as the Head of Jury for the South Asia Competition at this year’s Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival (October 27-November 5).

In 2005, Nair started a film school, the Maisha Film Lab in Kampala. The school was a response to the disparity between the images she saw of Africa on film and the reality of her life in Kampala.

Director Mira Nair poses at the L'Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Aug. 23, 2004. her new movie, "Vanity Fair," opens on Sept. 1. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)CHRIS PIZZELLO ...

The six-part miniseries was co-created and directed by Mira Nair, the famed Indian director of Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay, from a script by Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice, House of Cards).

“Mississippi Masala” director Mira Nair says she was nervous to ask Denzel Washington to be more vulnerable in his scenes with Sarita Choudhury in the swooningly romantic 1991 drama.

Nair used the word “maximize" to best sum up this philosophy as it relates to her craft and belief in getting the most out of everything she does.The centerpiece of Nair’s visit to Tufts, however, was ...