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Mira Nair
Rourkela, Orissa, India
Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films. She was educated at Delhi University and Harv…
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Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films. She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Nair used the proceeds to establish an organisation for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard. Nair has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards. She was also awarded the India Abroad Person of the Year-2007, which was presented by Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc, and India Abroad Person of the Year-2006. Nair is married to political scientist Mahmood Mamdani. Their son, Zohran Mamdani, is Mayor of New York City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mira Nair, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2024
Uma Thurman: Hollywood's Silent Warrior
Movie Self - director
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2024
The Many Miracles of Household Saints
Movie Self
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2022
National Treasure: Edge of History
TV show Executive Producer
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2020
A Suitable Boy
TV show Director
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2019
This Changes Everything
Movie Self
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2016
Queen of Katwe
Movie Director
- 2016
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2016
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Movie Self
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2015
Restoring the Apu Trilogy
Movie Self
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2015
A Fork, a Spoon & a Knight
Movie Director
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2014
Words with Gods
Movie Director
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2013
Femme
Movie Self
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2013
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Movie Director
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2011
Solace in the Dark
Movie Self
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2011
Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
Movie Herself
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2009
Amelia
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2008
8
Movie Director
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2008
How Can It Be
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2008
New York, I Love You
Movie Director
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2008
Migration
Movie Director
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2007
Positive
Movie Executive Producer
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2007
Lights, Action, Music
Movie Self
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2006
The Namesake
Movie Director
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2004
Koffee with Karan
TV show Self
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2004
Vanity Fair
Movie Director
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2004
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
Movie Self
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2002
11’09”01—September 11: India
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2002
September 11
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2002
Hysterical Blindness
Movie Director
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2001
Bollywood Calling
Movie Mira
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2001
The Laughing Club of India
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2001
Monsoon Wedding
Movie Director
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1998
My Own Country
Movie Saryu Joshi
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1997
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
Movie Writer
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1995
The Perez Family
Movie Woman Buying Flowers
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1993
The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat
Movie Director
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1991
Mississippi Masala
Movie Gossip Aunty #1
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1988
Salaam Bombay!
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