celebrations. In Monsoon Wedding, director Mira Nair illustrates the tension between a traditional and globalized India but encourages her audience to embrace both customs by comparing the marriages of Alice and Aditi. Nair shows the culture clash of India through her two leading ladies, Alice, the Verma family servant, and Aditi, the Verma family daughter, who serve, respectively, as symbols for traditional and globalized India. From their marriage partners
constructed in various forms to enhance their diverse contexts and inherent perspectives. Ultimately, political perspectives and society shape one another; they’re inextricably linked and cyclical in nature. W.H. Auden’s poem ‘September 1, 1939’ and Mira Nair’s film ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ (2012), respectively expose the dehumanising framework of tyranny and its affect on differing facets of humanity. Both mediums challenge domineering ideologies surrounding supreme power and attempt to empathetically
sticking with my original opinion that I tend to think that books are better portrayed than movies, but this one was a close call. Works Cited Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Print. The Namesake. Dir. Mira Nair. Prod. Mira Nair and Lydia Dean Pilcher. By Sooni Taraporevala. Perf. Kal Penn, Tabu , and Irrfan Khan. Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2007.
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW: 'THE NAMESAKE' Name: Varun Kumar Khare Roll no. : 150793 Course: SOC171B Plot:- The movie starts off with the life of two bengalese named Ashima, a classical singer, and Ashoke, who has settled in USA. Ashima, married in India, moves to the USA, leaving behind her family and the well-known familiar life. She tries to adjust to the new lifestyle and to assimilate the cultural differences. Ashoke on the other hand could adapt to
The most important thing in the world is the love of family. The Novel, The Namesake written by Jhumpa Lahiri that was later recreated into a film in 2006, displays all the important aspects of love. Both the movie and the book greatly showed the importance of love. Rather, it 's through the birth of Gogol, Ashoke dying, or with Gogol finding out about his wife affair. Although there are many themes shown throughout the novel and the film, the theme that stood out the most to me was love. Love was
remember watching the movie “Bend it like Beckham” by Gurinder Chaddha and how fascinated I was with the entire depiction of Indian diaspora and the process of negotiation and assertion of identity that is spun across the movie. In a similar fashion Mira Nair’s the namesake is the story of identity conflict and formation of two diasporic generations in the U.S. I was captivated by the idea of how the Diaspora film-makers themselves make films on the diaspora and the way they present it on the big screen
When emerging into a new culture, many find it difficult to adapt to new customs that have not always been presented to them. Jhumpa Lahiri, novelist of The Namesake and Mira Nair director of the movie based off the novel, both create a way for people to understand the pressure placed upon individuals who are trying to fit into a new society. The book and movie are both accurately able to show struggles faced in a new environment, the importance of religion, and becoming at peace with what cannot
Gogol and Sonia’s hybridization into the American culture Introduction Jhumpa Lahiri's novel “The Namesake” is an example of immigrant narrative, which deals with the theme of immigration and acculturation. The novel discusses the traditional immigration topics of exile and its discontents, intergenerational differences, losses and acquisitions of the immigrants and their children in pursuit of the American dream. However, the novel's theme is not framed by the concept “American dream” only - a
Diaspora all around the world face hardships when they first emigrate to their new home countries, but one such difficulty that is significant to their lives is their name. At first, a name appears to be no more than a simple way of identifying oneself. However, names can have great impacts on people’s lives due to their unseen importance and purpose, as shown in both the novel and film, The Namesake. Both adaptations follow the story of an Indian couple after their immigration to the United States
Hipparcos Mira Variable Stars ABSTRACT From the visual and infrared light curves we are trying to find the phase changes and correlate them to Infrared shift and magutdes to see what is happing to Mira type stars as they age. Most of the radiation in the star is in the Infrared. The method being used O-C and fitting mean light curves. All mira variables pulsate undergoing rapid mass loss. In the conclusion we show that the magnitude has a positive correlation with the phase shift. I.Introduction
The perception of India is vastly changing with modernization emerging alongside India’s former traditions. Mira Nair does this quite well in her film Monsoon wedding (2001). The use of Hindi and the English language adapt to its western viewers as well as its Indian viewers. Mira Nair also illustrates a family background that is rare in a traditional Indian family. Some family members from the Verma family are from different parts of the world; including the groom who is an engineer from Houston
Techniques in film "Monsoon Wedding" Mira Nair directed the 2000 film 'Monsoon Wedding' with the intention of making it a Bollywood film on her own terms. Through watching the film, it becomes evident that this was mixing traditional ideals of Indian Bollywood together with the modern elements of the West, such as those depicted in particular in Hollywood films, the Western equivalent of the Bollywood film industry although on not so large a scale. Nair spent the latter part of her further
EXACTLY AND APPROXIMATELY Viewing Mira Nair’s ‘Monsoon Wedding’ through the postcolonial lens ''We are like that only''-runs the subtitle of a popular production of Mira Nair, representing Indians today. Released in 2001, Monsoon Wedding is Nair's ''love song to my home city". Through a reworking of the tropes of Bollywood cinema, a medium that connects the global audience, Nair's film depicts the enthusiasm coupled with certain darker shades, more so in the midst of a wedding
ends in moments of dramatic revelation and joyful celebrations. In her movie, director Mira Nair also provides a glimpse of two different couples, Alice and Dubey and Aditi and Hemant, centering in on their contrasting marriages. Nair illustrates the tension between a traditional and globalized India but encourages her audience to embrace both customs by comparing the marriages of Alice and Aditi. In her movie, Nair depicts the culture clash of India through her two leading women, Alice, the Verma family
Fire Deepa Mehta’s Fire wrote a remarkable chapter in the history of Indian Cinema as it was the first mainstream movie to deal with homosexuality. In a patriarchal society like India, Fire tapped the prevalence of lesbianism in middle- class household. This understandably didn’t go too well with the so called protectors of Indian values and morals. Most of the public sound and fury surrounding Deepa Mehta’s Fire had to do with its purportedly ‘lesbian’ desecration of respectable, middle-
Despite differing in form, the film “Monsoon Wedding,” directed by Mira Nair and the novel “Heat and Dust,” by Ruth Prawler Jhabvala, have many similarities. Both of these texts convey an Indian world and the people in it. “Monsoon Wedding” is a party arthouse, party Bollywood film which deals with the leadup to the wedding of two young people, Aditi and Hermant. It combines their story with that of Aditi’s father, Lalit, and his family responsibilities, as well as the events occurring in the lives
I am Ankita Singal. I am from India. I decided to be a director when I was fourteen years old. I was in my tenth grade and studied about world wars in history. I was inspired by the stories of the wars and started writing stories based on the same subject. I had little clue what to do with those stories until I watched ‘Saving Private Ryan’ .This movie based on second world war inspired me to be a filmmaker. I come from a middle class family in India. Medicine, engineering and finance dominate the
Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise’s West Side Story (USA, 1961), a classic American film, and Mira Nair’s The Namesake (USA, 2006), a more contemporary film, both tell the story of young adults seeking out the American Dream. In both West Side Story and The Namesake, we see young people taking chances at love, while living out their lives and the American Dream. We experience the challenges that come with interracial relationships and the cultural influences that sadly put an end to the relationships
Parenting is no easy task. Whether you are a mother or a father, dealing with children is difficult. As specifically expressed in both of these 1992 films: Mississippi Masala and Gas Food Lodging, the themes of family, love, heartbreak, responsibility, and maturity are all shown throughout both. Overall, speaking volumes on what it truly means to be a parent. Specifically, the relationship between mother and daughter can range from flawed to superior. Universally, mothers and fathers will always
A Tale of Two Weddings Weddings are a celebration of love, family, and culture. Monsoon Wedding and My Big Fat Greek Wedding combine these aspects of weddings to tell us two different stories that revolve around very similar themes. Both movies portray the importance of family and acceptance through events and conflicts that surround a wedding. However, the different types of romances, marriages, and cultural issues depicted in these movies create two distinct images that can be seen as polar opposites