New 4K digital restoration undertaken by The Criterion Collection and supervised by director Mira Nair and cinematographer Ed Lachman. Mississippi Masala deals with the disconcerting issues of colourism, racism, and displacement, themes Nair is known to continually explore in her films. At once a powerful parable and a deeply personal work, Mississippi Masala remains an incisive examination of race relations and the tension between passion and tradition. Some 17 years pass before Mina falls for a self-employed carpet cleaner, Demetrius (Washington), and their romance puts them in conflict with the local Black and Indian-American communities-not to mention Mina’s family. They wind up in Greenwood, Mississippi, living with relatives and trying to reconcile the trauma of their involuntary exile with assimilating to American culture. This family set roots in the United States, in Mississippi, where their only daughter Mina fell in love with. This family was forced to move because of their skin color. Choudhury is Mina, a Ugandan Indian from Kampala whose family leaves Uganda after the implementation of Idi Amin’s policy of forcefully expelling all Asians from the country. In the movie, Mississippi Masala, a family from Uganda was forced to move from Uganda because the government did not want people who were not from Africa to live in Uganda. Learn more here.ĭenzel Washington stars opposite Sarita Choudhury in Mira Nair’s second fiction feature, which endures as a seminal screen romance of the 1990s. 25 screening and is available to all ticket-holders. A conversation with Mira Nair, Sarita Choudhury, and cinematographer Ed Lachman will immediately follow the Sept.
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