The Namesake
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Kal Penn, Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Jacinda Barrett, Zuleikha Robinson
Moving and marvelous new cross-cultural family saga.
The Namesake, adapted from Jhumpa Lahiriâ??s popular novel, conveys a palpable sense of people as living, breathing creatures who are far more complex than their words might indicate.
Despite being rooted in knotty issues of identity, Lahiri's novel forgoes didacticism in favor of vivid portraiture. Nair and her uniformly superb cast take the same tack: The characters are individuals before they are emblems.
It has been said that all modern Russian literature came out of Gogolâ??s â??Overcoat.â? In the same way, all of us came out of the overcoat of this same immigrant experience.
An engaging and moving film with a universal story about the bonds of family as told through two generations of a Bengali family.
Best Feature Film Casting - Drama
Casting Society of America (2007)
Mira Nair
Gotham Awards (2007)
Best Supporting Male
Independent Spirit Awards (2008)
Mira Nair
Love is Folly International Film Festival, Bulgaria (2006)
Top Independent Films
National Board of Review (2007)
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