• Mississippi Masala is a 1991 romantic drama film directed by Mira Nair, based upon a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Denzel Washington, Sarita...
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    actress. She made her screen debut starring in the romantic drama film Mississippi Masala (1991). She later appeared in American and international film productions...
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    film appearances in the subsequent decades, including in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala (1991) and Goutam Ghose's Abar Aranye (2002), which won her the National...
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    economic, social or cultural spheres. Among her best known films are Mississippi Masala, The Namesake, the Golden Lion–winning Monsoon Wedding, and Salaam...
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    He composed the film scores for the films Salaam Bombay (1988) and Mississippi Masala (1991) directed by Mira Nair, in addition to being the featured violin...
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  • India, Papa Hussein in My Beautiful Laundrette, patriarch Jay in Mississippi Masala and Dhalsim in Street Fighter: The Movie. He won the Genie Award for...
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    prominent leading man, Washington also acted in Mo' Better Blues (1990), Mississippi Masala (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Courage Under Fire (1996), Remember the...
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    such as the Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues (1990), the romantic drama Mississippi Masala (1991), Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the thriller...
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    (1976), and The Help (2011) were filmed in Greenwood. The 1991 movie Mississippi Masala was also set and filmed in Greenwood. Greenwood is served by two major...
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  • Kishore Kumar that was also featured on the soundtrack of Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala. The song fetched Kumar a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best...
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    Marathi and Hindi films, most notably, Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala and Anupam Mittal's Flavors and Bollywood films like Gol Maal, Bemisal...
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  • known for portraying Idi Amin in Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981) and Mississippi Masala (1991). Joseph Ogola Olita was born on 31 March 1944 to mother Regina...
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  • Joseph Olita as Idi Amin. Olita also played Amin in the 1991 film Mississippi Masala. It details the controversial actions and atrocities of the former...
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  • younger brother of Denzel Washington's character Demetrius Williams, in Mississippi Masala. He starred as Kirkland J. Ellis, III, in the independent film Big...
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    screenwriter, photographer, and filmmaker who is the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay!, all directed by...
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    Motion Picture Glory Won 1993 Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Mississippi Masala Won Malcolm X Won 1996 Crimson Tide Won 1997 Courage Under Fire Won...
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    production designer on several films, including Dad, Salaam Bombay!, and Mississippi Masala. Epstein's work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern...
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    wives. Amin is played by Joseph Olita, who reprised this role in Mississippi Masala (1991), a film about romance between African and Asian-Americans following...
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    Australia Dig! XX Ondi Timoner United States Go Fish Rose Troche Mississippi Masala Mira Nair Napoleon Dynamite Jared Hess Pariah Dee Rees The Times of...
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    Biloxi, including: Stone Cold, 1991 film starring Brian Bosworth. Mississippi Masala, 1992 film starring Denzel Washington. Arsenal, 2017 film starring...
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    Leroy Brown 1989 Jacknife Jake 1990 Q&A Detective Sam Chapman 1991 Mississippi Masala Tyrone Williams 1992 Jack Reed: One of Our Own Lt. Charles Silvera...
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    Night Rev. John Carter 1990 Mo' Better Blues Big Stop's Friend 1991 Mississippi Masala Williben Williams 1992 Malcolm X Toomer 1993 The Saint of Fort Washington...
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  • (1984) Holi (1984) Mirch Masala (1985) Hero Hiralal (1988) Aranyaka (1994) Ajeeb Itefaq (1989) Moksha (2001 film) Mississippi Masala (1991) as Pontiac Dr...
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  • of the 20th century. The experience is touched upon in the films Mississippi Masala, Touch of Pink, Bend It Like Beckham, The Last King of Scotland and...
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    Revels Mississippi portal Education segregation in the Mississippi Delta History of slavery in Mississippi Mississippi-in-Africa Mississippi Masala Black...
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  • Lonely in America Arun 1991 Sam & Me Nikhil 'Shwartza' Parikh 1991 Mississippi Masala Anil 1993 The Night We Never Met Cabbie 1994 It Could Happen to You...
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  • the Hood Brother Future TV Fried Green Tomatoes Jungle Fever Mississippi Masala (UK/US) Paris Trout TV 1992 Candyman (film series) Imagining Indians* Incident...
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  • Audience Award and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film) and Mississippi Masala (1991), starring Sarita Choudhary and Denzel Washington. In 1992 Vijayashree...
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    1990s 1990 (47th) Helle Ryslinge Sirup 1991 (48th) Sooni Taraporevala Mississippi Masala 1994 (51st) Bigas Luna & Cuca Canals The Tit and the Moon La Teta...
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  • Nair's 1991 film Mississippi Masala portrays the story of an Indian family which flees Uganda during the turmoil and settles in Mississippi. The expulsion...
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