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Mira Nair
Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.
She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Nair used the proceeds to establish an organisation for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard.
Nair has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards. She was also awarded the India Abroad Person of the Year-2007, which was presented by Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc, and India Abroad Person of the Year-2006.
Nair is married to political scientist Mahmood Mamdani. Their son, Zohran Mamdani, is Mayor of New York City.
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Queen of Katwe
A Fork, a Spoon & a Knight
Words with Gods
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Amelia
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Migration
New York, I Love You
How Can It Be
The Namesake
Vanity Fair
September 11
Hysterical Blindness
11’09”01—September 11: India
Monsoon Wedding
The Laughing Club of India
My Own Country
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
The Perez Family
The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat
Mississippi Masala
Salaam Bombay!
India Cabaret
So Far from India
Jama Masjid Street Journal
Amri
As actor
The Many Miracles of Household Saints
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This Changes Everything
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Restoring the Apu Trilogy
Femme
Solace in the Dark
Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
Lights, Action, Music
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Bollywood Calling
My Own Country
The Perez Family
Mississippi Masala
India Cabaret
So Far from India