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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
1,893 Views


- Tadice. - Hi, girl.

What are you doing here?

Just hanging out.

Harry, Tadice. Tadice, Harry.

- Tadice. Pleasure. - We

worked together at the motel.

You are needing room?

- Never mind us. Wanna dance? - Me?

- Hi. - Hey, how you doing?

We met this afternoon. The accident.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- How's your van? - All right.

And the car's all right?

- Not really. - Yeah.

Excuse me.

What's up, Rabbit?

Back from the city of Jackson

let's welcome home our

very own Alicia LeShay.

We saw your face in the magazine.

We're all proud of you, sugar.

Sylvester Artiste ill,

record producer.

How you doing?

Hey, with this lady by my

side, l feel like a king.

Rabbit and me used to

be the talk of the town.

- You seen my advertisement? - Yeah.

Now l'm gonna cut a record. And you?

Yeah, l'm doing all right.

We got some new machines

we're working with deep shags.

Everything's going all right.

Matter of fact, l'm feeling

Rashida, girl, how you doing?

You look fabulous.

Like to dance?

Mina, l'm leaving.

Come on, Mina, you can't leave

already. D-Money will take you home.

- Yeah, yeah. Where you stay? -

At the Monte Cristo off the 82.

- You sure you wanna leave? - Yes.

l'll stay if you don't mind, huh?

Tyrone, this here's

Mina.

Mina, Mina You got the

Are you from around here?

Yeah.

- You Mexican? - No.

l used to live in L.A. Plenty of Mexicans

there looking as pretty as you do.

l'm Indian.

Oh, come on, now.

You ain't no Indian.

Yes, l am.

What's a girl like you

doing in Mississippi?

Punishing yourself?

- You about ready to go?

- She just got here.

Why don't you stay and

l'll take you home?

l'll see you in the morning,

Tyrone. Come on.

What?

So you clean carpets?

Yeah.

l got my own business.

Motels?

Motels, offices, homes

lndian motels?

Yeah, some.

Mostly they clean their

own carpets, though.

Yeah, l know.

That's where l live.

ln a motel.

Work there too.

l'm gonna give you one of my

cards here. You might want to

You already gave me one.

l did?

This morning.

The accident.

Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah.

- l'll walk you in. - l'll be fine.

- Really. - You sure?

All right.

Oh, listen, l didn't mean

to butt in on your man.

He's not my man.

Well, maybe l'll give you

a call sometime.

- Listen to me. - Okay, okay.

lf you don't spend,

how will money come in?

There must be crossventilation.

lf money is not important, then

why are you wasting your time

suing the government of

Uganda for your property?

Money comes

mOney 90eS.

- Right, Pontiac?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Meet our Jaybhai.

ln Uganda, you're the

champion defender of blacks

but the same blacks kicked him out.

Right, Jaybhai?

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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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