Mira Nair - JEWEL OF ROURKELA

Mira Nair or u can call her "Padma Bhushan Mira Nair" ... Born at Rourkela On October 15, 1957 Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival.She has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards. She was also awarded the India Abroad Person of the Year-2007. In 2012 she was awarded India's third highest civilian award the Padma Bhushan by President of India, Pratibha Patil. we wish her a great success ahead and hope her upcoming movie "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" will be a great HIT.

Personal Biography

Nair lives in New York City near Columbia University, where she is an adjunct professor in the Film Division of the School of Arts, and where her second husband, Professor Mahmood Mamdani, also teaches.Nair and her husband first met in 1988, when she went to Uganda for the first time to research for the film Mississippi Masala.She was earlier married to photographer Mitch Epstein. Nair has been an enthusiastic yoga practitioner for decades when making a film, she has the cast and crew start the day with a yoga session.Nair and Mamdani have one son named Zohran.

Professional Biography

• Jama Street Masjid Journal (1979) 
• So Far From India (1982) 
• India Cabaret (1985) 
• Children Of A Desired Sex (1987) 
• Salaam Bombay! (1988)
• Mississippi Masala (1991)
• The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat (1993) 
• The Perez Family (1995)
• Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)
• My Own Country (1998) 
• Monsoon Wedding (2001)
• Hysterical Blindness (2002) 
• 11'9"01 September 11 (Segment - "India") (2002) 
• Still, The Children are Here (2003) 
• Vanity Fair (2004)
• The Namesake (2006)
• Migration.. (2007)
• New York, I Love You (Segment - "Kosher Vegetarian") (2009)
• Segment - "How can it be?" (2008)
• Amelia (2009)
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)         

Awarded

• 1985: Best Documentary Film, Global Village Film Festival: India Cabaret 
• 1986: Golden Athena, Athens International Film Festival: India Cabaret 
• 1986: Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival: India Cabaret 
• 1988: Audience Award, Cannes Film Festival: Salaam Bombay! 
• 1988: Golden Camera (Best First Film), Cannes Film Festival: Salaam Bombay! 
• 1988: National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi: Salaam Bombay!
• 1988: National Board of Review Award for Top Foreign Films: Salaam Bombay! 
• 1988: "Jury Prize", "Most Popular Film" and "Prize of the Ecumenical Jury" at Montreal World Film Festival: Salaam Bombay! 
• 1988: New Generation Award, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 
• 1988: Lilian Gish Award (Excellence in Feature Film), Los Angeles Women in Film Festival: Salaam Bombay! 
• 1991: Golden Osella (Best Original Screenplay), Venice Film Festival: Mississippi Masala (with Sooni Taraporevala)
• 1991: Critics Special Award, São Paulo International Film Festival: Mississippi Masala 
• 1992: Best Director (Foreign Film), Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists: Mississippi Masala 
• 1992: Asian Media Award, Asian American International Film Festival 
• 1993: Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature: Mississippi Masala 
• 2000: Special Mention (Documentary and Essay), Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming: The Laughing Club of India 
• 2001: Golden Lion (Best Film), Venice Film Festival: Monsoon Wedding 
• 2001: Laterna Magica Prize, Venice Film Festival: Monsoon Wedding 
• 2002: Audience Award, Canberra International Film Festival: Monsoon Wedding 
• 2002: Special Award for International Cinema, Zee Cine Awards: Monsoon Wedding 
• 2002: UNESCO Award, Venice Film Festival: 11'9"01 September 11 
• 2004: Faith Hubley Web of Life Award, Rochester-High Falls International Film Festival 
• 2007: "Golden Aphrodite", Love is Folly International Film Festival (Bulgaria): The Namesake 
• 2012: Padma Bhushan by Govt. of India

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