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Synopsis: An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Mira Nair
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  5 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
1991
118 min
1,830 Views


Why should l shut my mouth?

Hey, my man,

l need my money. Forty bucks.

Y'all gonna need this

for the insurance.

See, Napkin, last week l even got

Chanda's name on the license plate.

Anilbhai, stop thinking of the car.

From whose pocket is this all going to come?

Thank you very much. Bye-bye, bye-bye.

- You have other problems. - What?

ln this country, all they know is how to sue.

You get me? You know about whiplash?

He'll say, When she hit my car,

my neck got a

And my spine is damaged forever

and so l am suing you for

just one million dollars.

- Then what will you do? -

Hey, Pontiac, stop scaring him.

- Anil, give me that fellow's card. - Sure.

Your debt is our bread and butter.

This fellow cleans my carpets.

- Mine too. So what? - So l'll fix it.

- Don't worry.

- You speak to him? Please.

Tomorrow. Now, smile.

l want to see you smile.

lt's your wedding day,

man, come on. Enjoy!

- Okay? - All right.

Beautiful.

Must you check, Kinnu? It's

not Mina's wedding after all.

- l knew it. Go change your slippers.

- Why?

- Is he gonna check out my feet also?

- Mina.

Face it, Ma, you got a darkie daughter.

Harry's mother doesn't like darkies.

Who needs Harry

hero-types in our family?

Want her to be a 30-year-old

spinster running a liquor store?

Why not? You can have a chain.

Go change your slippers.

The things l do for you, Ma.

Really, you never say anything

to her. You forget she's a girl.

Can girls behave the way she

does? Spoil her. Spoil her.

When she sits on our head,

it'll be your responsibility.

Kinnu.

The accident wasn't her fault.

Man, tell us what happened.

We was in this room filled

with computers and sh*t.

So l go on over to check them out, you

know, start fooling around with them.

- Start typing, Kill the crackers. - Oh, man.

And all this other stuff, right?

And then l couldn't erase it.

D-Money nearly lynched me.

- That's messed up, man.

- Yo, Dex, man. Dex.

There's big brother. You better haul ass.

Okay, y'all, peace.

Dex's messed up his brother's sh*t, man.

- Hey, D-Money. - Why l

always got to come get you?

Why l always got to come get

you off the street corner, man?

Daddy wants you home, maybe fix him

something to eat before he get off of work.

That's why l don't take you on the job with me.

- l can't depend on you. Come

on. - l was getting ready to go.

- Go by the employment office? - Yeah.

- And? - l went down

and they tell me l'm

coming in there too much.

They tell me veterans come first.

Those crackers always

got some excuse

That's what l'm talking about.

You always got some excuse.

You can stand out here on the

corner with these crackheads

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Sooni Taraporevala

Sooni Taraporevala (born 1957) is an Indian screenwriter, photographer and filmmaker who is best known as the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay (1988), all directed by Mira Nair.She directed her first feature film, based on a screenplay of her own, an ensemble piece set in Bombay, in Spring, 2007, entitled Little Zizou. This film explores issues facing the Parsi community to which she belongs. She was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India in 2014. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi & the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. more…

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