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Mira Nair

Mira Nair
  • Name: Mira Nair
  • Birthday: 1957-10-15
  • Place of birth: Rourkela, Orissa, India
  • Popularity: 8.728
Biography: Mira Nair (born October 15, 1957) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films. She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. She used the proceeds of the film, to establish an organization for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard. She has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various... Read More

Movies:

Title Release date
Uma Thurman - Hollywood's Cool Killer   as  Self 2024-08-25
The Many Miracles of Household Saints   as  Self 2024-01-06
This Changes Everything   as  Self 2019-06-28
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life   as  Self 2016-09-11
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses   as  Self 2016-07-18
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem   as  Self 2016-03-08
Restoring the Apu Trilogy   as  Self 2015-11-17
Femme   as  Self 2013-09-21
Solace in the Dark   as  Self 2011-09-11
Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded   as  Herself 2011-03-12
Lights, Action, Music   as  Self 2007-08-06
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers   as  Self 2004-08-01
Bollywood Calling   as  Mira 2001-11-23
The Perez Family   as  Woman buying Flowers 1995-05-12
Mississippi Masala   as  Gossip Aunty #1 1991-09-18
India Cabaret   as  Interviewer 1985-01-02