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Mississippi masala

A fresh perspective is brought to bear on race in the South by interweaving racial issues with those of economic and cultural dislocation and excluding the familiar overarching 'liberal' white perspective. At the centre of the film is the relationship between Mira, the non-conforming daughter of an Indian family settled in Mississippi, and Demetrius, a clean-cut black man. Mira's family had been political refugees from Idi Amin's Uganda nearly twenty years earlier. The tendency to stereotyping is offset by an outsider's eye for detail and landscape and the sense of loss brought to this material by Nair, who, as a East African-born Indian, has also experienced the loss of homeland.

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  • "MISSISSIPPI MASALA"
  • "Mira Nair's Mississippi masala"

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  • "A fresh perspective is brought to bear on race in the South by interweaving racial issues with those of economic and cultural dislocation and excluding the familiar overarching 'liberal' white perspective. At the centre of the film is the relationship between Mira, the non-conforming daughter of an Indian family settled in Mississippi, and Demetrius, a clean-cut black man. Mira's family had been political refugees from Idi Amin's Uganda nearly twenty years earlier. The tendency to stereotyping is offset by an outsider's eye for detail and landscape and the sense of loss brought to this material by Nair, who, as a East African-born Indian, has also experienced the loss of homeland."@en
  • "An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. Years after moving to Mississipi their daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families are forced to come to terms with it. Romance, culture and politics all come into play in this brilliant movie."
  • "Drama over de aanvaring tussen de Indiase en de zwarte gemeenschap in Greenwood, Mississippi."
  • "The daughter of an Indian family who move to Mississippi as refugees from Uganda, falls in love with a black man and their respective families have to come to terms with it."
  • "During British rule in India, many Indians were sent to Uganda to build a railroad. When the railroad was complete, most of the Indians decided to make Uganda their home, where they prospered. Indian parents refused to let their children intermarry with Africans, and, using this as a pretext, General Idi Amin, in November of 1972, made it mandatory for all Asians to leave Uganda. One of the displaced families moves from Kampala to Greenwood, Mississippi, where they are dependent on their relatives. From 1972 to 1990, they run a liquor store, while their daughter Mina cleans motel rooms and bathrooms. Her father, Jay, maintains the exile's hope of return, but his daughter has become American and falls in love with Demetrius, an African American small businessman who runs a rug cleaning service. Both families must adjust to the fact that their children want to marry someone of a different race."@en
  • "The daughter of an Indian family, refugees from Uganda, falls in love with a black man and their respective families have to come to terms with it."
  • "In this exotic and erotic interracial love story, an African American businessman falls for a beautiful Indian immigrant, whose family was expelled from Uganda, only to encounter shock and outrage from both families."@en
  • "Expulsados por la dictadura de Uganda en 1972, un matrimonio hindú y su pequeña hija Mina emigran a los Estados Unidos donde, después de varios años de tranquilidad, la pasión de la hermosa Mina por un hombre de color les hace revivir el odio racial, la angustia y el amor de sus vidas pasadas"@es
  • "In this exotic and erotic interracial love story, an African-American, owner of a small carpet cleaning service, falls for a beautiful Indian immigrant, only to encounter shock and outrage from both families."@en
  • "Une famille indienne quitte l'Ouganda pour s'installer dans le Mississippi. La fille y rencontre Demetrius, un jeune homme noir."
  • "An interracial love affair set in the American South between an East Indian, who with her family was exiled from Uganda, and an African American, with repercussions in their communities."@en
  • "The beautiful daughter of Indian refugees falls in love with a young black business man, causing a scandal within their families and community."
  • "In this exotic and erotic interracial love story an African American businessman falls for a beautiful Indian immigrant, only to encounter shock and outrage from both families."@en
  • "In this exotic and erotic interracial love story an African American businessman falls for a beautiful Indian immigrant, only to encounter shock and outrage from both families."
  • "Contrastato amore tra un intraprendente giovanotto afroamericano del Sud e una fiera indiana, nata a Kampala in Uganda e poi esule politica in una cittadina del Mississippi. Tema di questo film antirazzista, in altalena tra commedia e melodramma, è la gerarchia del colore della pelle: più bianchi si è, più in alto si sta nella scala sociale."@it
  • "In this exotic and erotic interracial love story, an African American businessman falls for a beautiful Indian immigrant, only to encounter shock and outrage from both families."
  • "In this exotic and erotic interracial love story, an African American businessman falls for a beautiful Indian immigrant, only to encounter shock and outrage from both families."@en
  • "Demetrius, a self-made man and owner of a carpet cleaning company, has a chance traffic accident with Mina, a young woman whose family have fled Uganda. As they begin their secret love affair, each is swept into the other's exotic world and into the centre of controversy and scandal."@en

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  • "Black films and programs"
  • "Black films and programs"@en
  • "Drames"
  • "British films"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Romantic comedy films"@en
  • "Films for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Romance films"@en
  • "Drama cinematográfico"@es
  • "DVD-Video"@en
  • "Llargmetratges"
  • "Features"
  • "Features"@en
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Spanish language materials"@en
  • "Avventuroso (Genere)"@it

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  • "Mississippi Masala [dvd]"
  • "Mississippi masala : from the director Monsoon Wedding"
  • "Mississipi Masala (Pel·licula cinematogràfica)"
  • "MISSISSIPPI MASALA ; Regie: Mira Nair. Mit Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore, Charles S. Dutton, u.a.. Musik: L. Subramaniam"
  • "Mississippi masala"
  • "Mississippi masala"@en
  • "Mississippi Masala"@es
  • "Mississippi Masala"@en
  • "Mississippi Masala"@it
  • "Mississippi Masala"
  • "Mississippi Masala (Pel·lícula cinematogràfica)"
  • "Mississippi masala (Motion picture)"@en
  • "Mississippi Massala"
  • "Mississippi Masala [DVD]"@en

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