Mira Nair is an Indian born Filmmaker and producer has created distinct visions and has channeled those into films, in original and artistic manners. Mira Nair, who has been educated at Harvard, and has been nominated and won several awards, including an academy award nomination.
Nair debuted her career with the film Salaam Bombay in 1988. From then on she has gone on to direct films such as Mississippi Masala, Vanity Fair, The Namesake, and Monsoon Wedding.
Nair plays with cultural themes in her works. She brings to the screen, the identity of South Asians, their trials living in a heavily cultural dominated society, such as in India, or dealing with situations living in the west and holding on to and dealing with that identity. She displays these ideas in her works with striking images, playing with contrasts of gender, economic, and cultural issues to present her vision. The way in which she is able to portray her vision makes her an auteur, using her film as a platform not just to which present a story, but allow her own vision of that to shine through.
Nair being a female filmmaker also brings forth gender issues, such as in her movie Karma Sutra: A Tale of Love. The film portrays strong female characters in a very ancient and strict patriarchal society.
Although Nair who brings to screen the almost invisible peoples of South Asia in her films, she is often criticized for venturing out of these niches. Amelia her least popular film, brought forth criticism, that Nair should stick with capturing the essence of South Asians on screen.
Criticism set aside, Nair is accomplishing a grand feat. She actively arouses interests from the very beginning of a movie. Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, in particular, captures your interests and arouses your passions, and women will not fail to identify with the characters. In her segment Kosher, Vegetarian in the movie New York, I Love You, Nair again plays with contrasting emotions and situations.
Mira Nair has set herself apart, by not just being a woman in an industry so heavily dominated by men, but by becoming truly an auteur and resonating her art through her films.
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pages/4001/Nair-Mira.html
http://www.searchindia.com/2009/10/23/critics-rape-mira-nairs-amelia-earhart/comment-page-1/
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/18/monsoon_wedding.html
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