Indian-born director Mira Nair bounces back from her misguided take on Thackeray's
Vanity Fair with a project better suited to her unique point of view: a funny and touching adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winner Jhumpa Lahiri's novel about two generations of Bengali-Americans attempting to reconcile the world of their collective past with that of their individual futures.
Yonkers, New York, 1977: Young bride Ashima (Bollywood superstar Tabu) arrives from Calcutta with Ashoke (Irfan Kahn), her new husband by arranged marriage. Ashoke seems to be a nice enough fellow — an intellectual enamored of Russian literature who's been studying fiber optics at a Ne...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
122 mins