Mira Nair Filmography

Born:: October 15, 1957 in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
Occupation:: Director, Producer
Biography:: Born in India, filmmaker Mira Nair studied at the University of New Delhi before earning a degree in Sociology from Harvard in 1976. Based in New York City, she worked on her own independent short films, eventually winning the Best Documentary prize at the American Film Festival for India Cabaret...Read More

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Shantaram

Crew: Director

Actors: Johnny Depp, Abhishek Bachchan

1/1/09
Amelia

Crew: Director

Actors: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Virginia Madsen, Ewan McGregor

Synopsis: Hilary Swank and Richard Gere star in director Mira Nair's biopic tracing the life of famed aviator Amelia Earhart -- who made history in 1932 by becoming the first woman ever to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Five years later, as Earhart attempted to fly around the world, the pilot and her Read More

1/1/09
The Namesake

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Kal Penn, Tabu, Irfan Khan, Jacinda Barrett, Zuleikha Robinson

Synopsis: A couple coming to terms with living in a new culture discover their troubles are compounded by their son in this drama from filmmaker Mira Nair. Ashoke (Irfan Khan) and Ashima (Tabu) are a young couple who are brought together in an arranged marriage and soon leave Calcutta to seek their fortune Read More

3/9/07
Lights! Action! Music!

Synopsis: The documentary Lights! Action! Music! consists primarily of interviews with composers, directors, and actors who explain the many challenges involved in writing original music for motion pictures. Among the many famous names who appear on camera or whose work is used during the film are Francis Read More

2007
Still, the Children Are Here

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The Garos are a tribe of indigenous people living in Meghalaya, a part of Northeastern India that has for the most part been untouched by the innovations of the 20th century. The Garos support themselves by growing rice, and they still fashion most of their homes and household needs from bamboo Read More

11/3/04
Vanity Fair

Crew: Director

Actors: Geraldine McEwan, Reese Witherspoon, Romola Garai, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Rhys Ifans, Gabriel Byrne, Jim Broadbent, Bob Hoskins, Ruth Sheen

Synopsis: William Makepeace Thackeray's witty assessment of the British class system, as seen through the experiences of one young woman, is brought to the screen with some serious star power in this period comedy drama. Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) is a bright and ambitious girl born to a poor British Read More

9/1/04
September 11

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the aftermath of the tragedies on September 11, 2001, the French film company Studio Canal called upon a group of filmmakers, representing various regions of the world, to address the scope of the situation in however broad or intimate a context as they saw fit. The one guideline they were Read More

7/18/03
Monsoon Wedding

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Vasundhara Das, Parvin Dabas

Synopsis: Following up on her controversial erotic drama Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, Mira Nair directs this charming family drama about a very chaotic Indian wedding. Lalit Verma (Naseeruddin Shah) is a wealthy father who is trying to see that his daughter Aditi's wedding goes off without a hitch. Though Read More

2/22/02
Hysterical Blindness

Crew: Director

Actors: Uma Thurman, Gena Rowlands, Juliette Lewis, Justin Chambers, Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: Two aging single women in 1980s New Jersey enact a depressing routine of deluded barroom romance in this made-for-cable drama. At least 15 years after her father walked out on her, Debby (Uma Thurman) still has issues with men. She spends her evenings carousing with best friend, Beth (Juliette Lewis Read More

2002
Conversations in World Cinema: Mira Nair

2000
The Laughing Club of India

Crew: Director

2000
My Own Country

Crew: Actor, Director

Actors: Naveen Andrews, Glenne Headly, Hal Holbrook, Swoosie Kurtz, Marisa Tomei

Synopsis: From the director of the acclaimed Salaam Bombay, My Own Country is based on the best-selling memoir of an Ethiopian doctor who treated HIV and AIDS patients in Johnson City in the smoky mountains of Eastern Tennessee in 1985. The film narrates the tribulations of a physician who takes home the Read More

1998
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Indira Varma, Sarita Choudhury, Ramon Tikaram, Naveen Andrews, Rekha

Synopsis: In this visually striking saga of one woman's search for personal and sexual freedom in 16th century India, Maya (Indira Varma) is a servant girl who is a handmaid to Tara (Sarita Choudhury), a princess. Maya and Tara have been close friends since childhood, and when Rasa Devi (Rekha), an elegant Read More

1996
The Perez Family

Crew: Director

Actors: Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina, Anjelica Huston, Chazz Palminteri, Trini Alvarado

Synopsis: Old and new loves are turned upside down through a complex case of mistaken identities in this romantic comedy-drama. In 1980, Juan Raul Perez (Alfred Molina) is released from a Cuban prison after spending 20 years behind bars and is allowed to join a mass emigration to the U.S. While Juan was Read More

1995
Mississippi Masala

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore, Charles S. Dutton, Joe Seneca

Synopsis: Mississippi Masala is a tale of how prejudice makes victims and instigators of us all. In 1972, Indian Jay (Roshan Seth), a resident of Uganda, is forced by the bigoted Amin regime to take his family and flee the country. He vows to hate and distrust all blacks--at least until he is able to Read More

2/5/92
Salaam Bombay!

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Shafig Syed, Sarfuddin Qurrassi, Raju Barnad, Raghubir Yadav, Nana Patekar

Synopsis: Shot on-location on the streets of Bombay, Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay is the gritty tale of Krishna (Shafiq Syed, a runaway discovered by Nair), a boy kicked out of his home, and abandoned by the traveling circus he had joined. In desperation, he uses the little money he has to buy a one-way ticket Read More

10/9/88
India Cabaret

Crew: Director

1985
So Far From India

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When a man from India decides to seek better opportunities in America, he makes excuses when it is time for his family to join him. The reasons are complex, but many changes have occurred as he adapts to a new country, and he has second thoughts about his old life and those who were part of that Read More

1982
Jama Masjid Street Journal

Crew: Director

1979