Passion. Tradition. Mix it up.
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their Uganda home, twentysomething Mina finds herself co-operating a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. Her passionate romance with 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.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Denzel WashingtonDemetrius Williams
- Sarita ChoudhuryMina
- Roshan SethJay
- Sharmila TagoreKinnu
- Charles S. DuttonTyrone Williams
- Joe SenecaWilliben Williams
- Ranjit ChowdhryAnil
- Mohan GokhalePontiac
- Mohan AgasheKanti Napkin
- Tico WellsDexter Williams
Crew
- Mira NairDirector
- Sooni TaraporevalaWriter
- Edward LachmanDirector of Photography
- L. SubramaniamOriginal Music Composer
- Roberto SilviEditor
- Michael NozikProducer
- Mira NairProducer
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