The Namesake

2005 Drama

Director: Mira Nair

Starring: Kal Penn, Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Jacinda Barrett, Zuleikha Robinson

Reviews

  • Moving and marvelous new cross-cultural family saga.

    Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly

    20 January 2013

  • 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.

    Stephen Holden - The New York Times

    20 January 2013

  • 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.

    - Los Angeles Times

    20 January 2013

  • 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.

    Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times

    20 January 2013

  • An engaging and moving film with a universal story about the bonds of family as told through two generations of a Bengali family.

    Claudia Puig - USA Today

    20 January 2013

Awards

  • 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)