The two women recently were in Calcutta together for a screening of the movie.
Lahiri sobbed after seeing the movie for the first time, Nair says. "It was not so much changes as shifting, seeing what you want and what you can do without." She frequently consulted novelist Lahiri during the adaptation of the book and the two have become quite close.
Nair, who grew up in a Punjabi family, says the wedding movie, like The Namesake, is close to her heart. Shot in just 47 days, the movie is akin to cinema verite, a riot of colors and sounds erupting in a Punjabi wedding that takes place in New Delhi. She adapted William Thackeray's novel, Vanity Fair, in a 2004 production starring Reese Witherspoon, and she directed the award-winning HBO film series, Hysterical Blindness (about two single women from New Jersey), with Uma Thurman.īut Nair's greatest success thus far has been the 2001 hit Monsoon Wedding. The movie documented an African-American man's relationship with a Ugandan-Indian whose family had immigrated to Mississippi. Subsequent projects included Mississippi Masala, which starred Denzel Washington. It was nominated for an Oscar in 1989 for best foreign film. Nair directed several documentaries before her debut film Salaam Bombay! about street children in Mumbai. She attended Delhi University and then went to Harvard University at age 19, where she became interested in film. Nair, 49, was born and raised in Orissa, an eastern state in India, in a "tiny town," with one movie theater that "incessantly played Doctor Zhivago," she says rolling her eyes.
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