Word: nair
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...filmmakers include Kate Davis, Alyson Denny, Tina Rathborne, Peggy Stern, Lisa Shaw, Martha Swetzoff and Mira Nair, director of the award-winning Salaam Bombay...
That was my first impression of the Bombay that Mira Nair decided to chronicle in Salaam Bombay...
Directed by Mira Nair...
...Nair did. She and her film crew shot Bombay on location, searching for--and probably exaggerating--the bustling, seedy world. Her film is a somber tale, not a documentary, but the sort of muckraking that appeals to anyone with a "social conscience." It's the next best thing to being there--only better, because the audience does not have to deal with the consequences...
...touching story, but one could wish Director Nair had skipped some of the melodramatic touches. Sweet Sixteen's deflowering, for example, takes place during the festival of Holi, a spring rite in which red dye symbolic of the menstrual flow adorns the particpants. Under the auspices of a float of the elephant-headed god Ganesh, whose long trunk is considered phallic, Sweet Sixteen is pushed into a taxi to take her to her first sexual encounter...