![]() ![]() And I loved to evoke the stillness of that generation, where you don’t need roses and diamonds and big proclamations of love-it’s really about sharing a cup of tea in a kitchen and the way you look at each other and the history in those eyes. “One, the love story which I find rarely seen, the idea of strangers who marry and then learn to fall in love with each other, especially more so in a distant climate. “What I wanted to do was to make the adaptation rest on two pillars,” the filmmaker–who made her debut with the Oscar-nominated “Salaam Bombay!” in 1988 and went on to direct such pictures as “Mississippi Masala” and “Monsoon Wedding”-explained. “And I love the rhythm of laughter and sorrow in a film. “I wanted very much to make a love story about parents and children,” director Mira Nair said in a Dallas interview about her new picture, “The Namesake,” based on the well-regarded novel by Jhumpa Lahiri about a traditional Bengali couple, wed in an arranged ceremony, that emigrate to the United States, and their son with the unlikely name of Gogol, who’s torn between his Indian culture and Americanization. ![]()
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