10. " The Namesake " -- The virtues of Mira Nair's adaptation of Jhumpa Lahri's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel are those of the old-fashioned, time-spanning family drama that draws you deeply into the lives of its characters and won't let you leave easily
It was a great feel-good tale, brilliantly cast-Mira Nair Satish Kaushik: "I liked Chak De India for its directorial skills, on-the-dot energetic performance by Shah Rukh and the fresh talented cast and most important of all, the spirit of victory." ...
We expect to complete a detailed survey within a month,” joint labour commissioner MK Balachandran Nair said. Their task becomes tedious since most of the workers simply migrate to Kerala while others are brought in by contractors, who are bound by ...
Alibaug and adjoining Kihim are dirty,” says Ranjit Nair, manager of Hotel Ravi Kiran, Alibaug. “That’s why people are moving towards Kashid. People come and stay in hotels here, but when it is time to go to the beach, they prefer Kashid ...
Sarah Polley's Away From Her , Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited , Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterly , Ang Lee's Lust, Caution , Mira Nair's The Namesake , John Carney's Once , Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn , and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's 28 Weeks Later ...
The rest of the field, which included Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi, Citibank CEO Vikram Pandit, Adobe chief executive Shantanu Narayan, academic Deepak Jain and film director Mira Nair, were left far behind by the two front-runners. Jindal was third ...
There isn’t enough affordable and readily available information,” Gopakumar Nair, a Mumbai-based patent expert, pointed out. Basheer began with sporadic posts. “It began as a time-pass in 2005. However, I found that there is a lot of interest ...
It's hard to say what's most indelicate about this whole exchange: the fact that gift cards are about as personal as a ream of copier paper (since many of the retail outfits that offer gift cards are just as likely to carry barbecue grills as Nair ...
Mira Nair's uneven but extraordinarily affecting movie about the relocation of an Indian family from Calcutta to New York is based on the Jhumpa Lahiri novel and has a marvelous cast led by Irrfan Khan and Kal Penn, who will make you forget all about ...
Mira Nair's vibrant The Namesake depicts an American child of immigrants rejecting, then embracing, his father's heritage. And Tamara Jenkins' The Savages is a darker-than-black comedy about siblings caring for the dementia-impaired father who never ...
