Mira Nair’s The Namesake is a 2006 English-language drama film based on the novel of the same name by Jhumpa Lahiri. It paints a vivid portrait of an Indian Bengali family’s journey to a faraway land ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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