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Rome's first international film festival will open with film Fur, directed by Steven Shainberg and starring Nicole Kidman ; films The Namesake, directed by Mira Nair and N, directed by Paolo Virzi, will also have their premieres; Sean Connery will receive lifetime achievement award; photo (topics.nytimes.com....mira_nair/)

Armed with devastating performances from Uma Thurman , Juliette Lewis and Gena Rowlands , director Mira Nair trains her sociologist's eye on the Garden State in HBO's "Hysterical Blindness ." (dir.salon.com....mira_nair/)

Working my way through a pile of magazines recently, I came across an inspiring interview with filmmaker Mira Nair in the April 2007 issue of The Believer . Her thoughts on the creative process were particularly illuminating. Among other things, she reminds us that "if you think of everything as a stepping-stone to something else, you will never be ripe for the picking. That is the key to what I do. I think if you give yourself fully to whatever that is, there are connections that are being made without your knowing it at first. Whereas if you force it, you lose that spark that makes you see something and drop everything. That's how I made Namesake . I just dropped everything when I read that. I wasn't looking for it. (fictionwriting.about.com....a-nair.htm)

No, no! Celina isn't thinking of changing her name, nor has Mira Nair signed her for any of her films, but that's her name in the forthcoming comic (www.nydailynews.com..../Mira+Nair)

ten years ago, director Mira Nair stunned audiences with her featuredebut, "Salaam Bombay " - a gritty, intoxicating look at street childrenliving hand-to-mouth in modern India that won the Camera d'Or atCannes and was nominated for an Academy Award. For Nair, the attentionwas gratifying, but hardly expected. (www.salon.com....70307.html)

International Examiner; 3/18/1997; 1084 words; . Examiner 03-18-1997 Mira Nair 's "Kama Sutra " That Mira Nair is a gifted filmmaker, there can be no doubt . Nair's "Kama Sutra " has all the trappings of a stunning . metaphor for betrayal. However, "Kama Sutra " fails to celebrate the power and strength . Odissi feast at Sutra House (www.encyclopedia.com....Sutra.html)

International Examiner; 3/18/1997; 1084 words; International Examiner 03-18-1997 Mira Nair 's " Kama Sutra" That Mira Nair is a gifted filmmaker, there can be no doubt . Nair's " Kama Sutra" has all the trappings of a stunning . obligatory metaphor for betrayal. However, " Kama Sutra" fails to celebrate the power and . The sensual world of `Kama Sutra' (www.encyclopedia.com....-Kama.html)

April 2, 2007 - "Films only truly exist when they're seen and felt by people." DIRECTOR MIRA NAIR Mira Nair may have her most commercially successful . (www.home-cinema.mcrc-hfx.ca/)

This week, we have Mira Nair on her fine new film The Namesake, I review Rachid Bouchareb's Days of Glory, and author Tim Adler talks about Hollywood and the mob. (blogs.guardian.co.uk...._solomons/)

There were some other mysteries. Sean Penn 57;s 60;Into the Wild61; and Tamara Jenkins ' 60;The Savages,61; Mira Nair 57;s 60;The Namesake61; and Todd Haynes 57; 60;I57;m Not There61; were each triumphs. 60;A Mighty Heart,61; with a strong performance by Angelina Jolie , sadly went nowhere (www.foxnews.com....17,00.html)

Armed with devastating performances from Uma Thurman , Juliette Lewis and Gena Rowlands , director Mira Nair trains her sociologist's eye on the Garden State in HBO's "Hysterical Blindness ." (08/24/2002 (www.salon.com....ate08.html)

Filmmaker Mira Nair talks about "Monsoon Wedding ," her homemade tribute to Bollywood that's breaking art-house records across North America. (03/13/2002 (www.salon.com....ate03.html)

For getting a chance to colour the wall and sensitise people about their rights, the children must thank film-maker Mira Nair , who after winning acclaim at home and overseas for her film "Salaam Bombay " - based on the lives of street and working children - formed the non-government organisation (www.hindu.com....130200.htm)

Roger Ebert will be honored at the Gotham Awards this year, says the AP , as will Mayor Bloomberg , Javier Bardem and Mira Nair . Afterward, we're sure, they'll head over to Gym and spend the night doing shots and telling saucy anecdote (blog.ifctv.com....g/2007/10/)

Each two-hour episode is narrated by a celebrity, among them are Academy Award Winning 'Gladiator ' actor Russel Crowe (Australia Revealed), renowned film director Mira Nair (India Revealed), three-time Emmy award winner James Spader (China Revealed), Oscar nominee and multiple award winner Edward James Olmos (Mexico Revealed) (www.topnews.in....day-216979)

Cell phones and silk saris, dot-coms and arranged marriages - Monsoon Wedding , the latest film from Indian-born director Mira Nair Salaam Bombay !, Mississippi Masala captures the heady (www.westword.com....sue=218317)

Best director: Mira Nair 's The Namesake took aproblematic, decades- and continents-spanning novel and made itinto a movie that was clear, culturally illuminating and profoundlymoving (www.theage.com.au....96567.html)

Her chaperone Roberts, who fled from an Australian jail in 1980 after being convicted of bank robbery, appeared to take them to places mentioned in his novel, which is due to be made into a film by Mira Nair , starring Johnny Depp (www.reuters.com....7420080108)

This week, we have Mira Nair on her fine new film The Namesake, I review Rachid Bouchareb's Days of Glory, and author Tim Adler talks about Hollywood and the mo (blogs.guardian.co.uk....ast_6.html)

Buddhist-Christian Studies; 1/1/2001; Devenish, Philip E.; 1590 words; . international scholars were invited to discuss and explore the Lotus Sutra . Some of the earlier conferences focused on themes such as The Lotus Sutra and Ethics and The Lotus Sutra and Social Responsibility. These conferences have encouraged a more . Mira Nair 's "Kama Sutra" (www.encyclopedia.com....Sutra.html)

"Chris Tucker will be playing the main character in the film," director Mira Nair told the Mumbai Mirror newspaper, adding that filming should begin after Tucker wraps production on "Rush Hour 3." (juicy-news.blogspot.com....chive.html)

Mumbai, Feb 27 (IANS) Director Mira Nair is going to cast the intense Irrfan Khan and Hollywood stunner Natalie Portman in her next directorial venture 'Kosher Vegetarian', a love story between a Gujarati man and a Jewish gir (in.news.yahoo.com....ywood.html)



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