The Namesake

I saw this wonderful movie and recommend it highly. It’s beautiful as it deals with issues of leaving home, bringing up children in a foreign country, dealing with love, loss and finally coming back. The cinematography was mesmerizing, juxtaposing colorful Calcutta with a wintery new York. Irafan Khan and Tabu gave excellent performances. The director Mira Nair, has created an even more emotionally dense movie than Monsoon Wedding.

Sepia Mutiny reviews it here.

“I don’t want to raise him in this lonely country,” says Ashima (Tabu), soon after the birth of Gogol Ganguli in Mira Nair’s new movie The Namesake, opening in a limited release today. Based on the critically acclaimed and commercially successful
novel of the same name by Jhumpa Lahiri, the movie proves to be a remarkably faithful adaptation. Raise him here, of course, she does, but those words remain a rare break in her composure, a heartfelt expression of homesickness and fear.