At Express Adda, Kal Penn shared how his breakout role as Kumar in Harold & Kumar almost sabotaged his chances to be cast in ...

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

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 ...

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.

“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.

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 ...

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.

Filmmaker Mira Nair joined Stanford history professors Robert Crews and Aishwary Kumar on Wednesday to screen “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” (2013) and discuss the challenges associated with ...

Filmmaker and director Mira Nair ’79 donated her professional archive — including photographs, film scripts, and journals — to the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study’s Schlesinger Library.

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 ...