Overview
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
Details
- Director
- Mira Nair
- Writer
- Sooni Taraporevala
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $8,000,000
Cast
Charles S. Dutton
Denzel Washington
Joe Seneca
Mohan Agashe
Mohan Gokhale
Ranjit Chowdhry
Roshan Seth
Sarita Choudhury
Sharmila Tagore
Tico Wells
Keywords
forced migration
idi amin
immigrant
interracial relationship
interracial romance
mississippi
mississippi river
racial prejudice
racism
romantic
southern usa
uganda
woman director
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