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Jan 29, 2023 · As a literature student, Taraporevala had a knack for reading and never had an intentional plan for a career in filmmaking. It was during her sophomore year at Harvard that she met Mira Nair—her frequent collaborator—along with whom she crafted adaptations that put Indian cinema on the transnational map of film festivals.
- Akriti Rastogi
Mira Nair ’79 met Sooni Taraporevala ’79 in the Lowell House dining room in the fall of 1976. The two women, both of Indian descent, became friends and, nine years later, began working together on the 1988 film Salaam Bombay!—Nair as director, Taraporevala as screenwriter.
Mar 26, 2007 · Useless Fact: Mira often works with longtime friend and creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, who she met at Harvard 30 years ago where they both were students.
May 25, 2022 · It would become the creative model for Nair and Taraporevala’s translation of the real-life phenomenon of Indian-owned motels in the American South into a spicy cinematic blend of migration, rebellion, and romance.
May 4, 2022 · Starring a newly Oscar-winning Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury in her feature film debut, Nair and screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala explore intersecting ideas about race and home as seen through the romance between a Black American and an Uganda-Indian exile living in Mississippi.
Taraporevala met Mira Nair as an undergraduate, leading to their longtime creative collaboration. Next she joined the Cinema Studies Department at New York University , and after receiving her MA in Film Theory and Criticism, in 1981, she returned to India to work as a freelance still photographer.
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Mississippi Masala is a 1991 romantic drama film directed by Mira Nair, based upon a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, and Roshan Seth. Set primarily in rural Mississippi, the film explores interracial romance between African Americans and Indian Americans.
