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Irrfan Khan: The Namesake

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Synopsis

NOMINATED FOR: Best Supporting Male

Spanning two generations, two clashing cultures and two very different ways of life that crash into each other only to become lovingly intertwined, THE NAMESAKE is ultimately about the imminently relevant question: what does it mean to be an American family? In her most personal film to date, acclaimed director Mira Nair (VANITY FAIR, MONSOON WEDDING) brings to the screen a poignant and transporting version of Jhumpa Lahiri’s best-selling novel, which won reader’s hearts across the world with its exploration of the ties that can both tangle and bind global families as they brave the modern vicissitudes of change, conflict and disaster.

Cast & Crew

director: Mira Nair
writer: Sooni Taraporevala
producer: Lydia Deal Pilcher, Mira Nair
film facts
country
India/USA
runtime
122 min.
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