Known For
Directing
Born
Oct 15, 1957
Place of Birth
Rourkela, Orissa, India
Credits
44 titles
Mira Nair
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mira Nair, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Uma Thurman: Hollywood's Silent Warrior
Self - director
The Many Miracles of Household Saints
Self
National Treasure: Edge of History
Executive Producer
A Suitable Boy
Director
This Changes Everything
Self
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
Queen of Katwe
Director
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Self
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
Self
Restoring the Apu Trilogy
Self
A Fork, a Spoon & a Knight
Director
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Words with Gods
Director
Femme
Self
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Director
Solace in the Dark
Self
Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
Herself
Amelia
Director
8
Director
How Can It Be
Director
New York, I Love You
Director
Migration
Director
Positive
Executive Producer
Lights, Action, Music
Self
The Namesake
Director
Koffee with Karan
Self
Vanity Fair
Director
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
Self
11’09”01—September 11: India
Director
September 11
Director
Hysterical Blindness
Director
Bollywood Calling
Mira
The Laughing Club of India
Director
Monsoon Wedding
Director
My Own Country
Saryu Joshi
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
Writer
The Perez Family
Woman Buying Flowers
The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat
Director
Mississippi Masala
Gossip Aunty #1
Salaam Bombay!
Director
India Cabaret
Interviewer
So Far from India
Interviewer/Narrator
Jama Masjid Street Journal
Director
Amri
Director