What’s in a name?
With her latest cross-cultural opus, The Namesake, director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) has reaffirmed her artful vision of the Indian diaspora that runs throughout her work. However, the film gets stuck in a generation gap it its struggles to depict a new kind of Indian, the so-called “ABCD” (American-Born Confused Desi). Given the traditional name […]