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The Namesake: Deepika Bahri is Touched by Mira Nair's Vivid, Sonorous Account of Immigrant Life in an Adopted Home City

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ABSTRACT In this review of Mira Nair's film adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's 2003 novel about an immigrant Indian family in New York, particular close attention is paid to the director's careful use of color, speech, and music to evoke with subtlety and power the experience of migration and its attendant mourning.
University of California Press
Title: The Namesake: Deepika Bahri is Touched by Mira Nair's Vivid, Sonorous Account of Immigrant Life in an Adopted Home City
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ABSTRACT In this review of Mira Nair's film adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's 2003 novel about an immigrant Indian family in New York, particular close attention is paid to the director's careful use of color, speech, and music to evoke with subtlety and power the experience of migration and its attendant mourning.

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