It was also the first time I’d seen a Hollywood screen filled only with South Asian actors, where the white girlfriends and best friends stuck out like sore thumbs, against a palette that was palpably desi. When I was growing up, my parents had never identified our immigrant experience as part of the Indian diaspora, but in The Namesake, I saw it mirrored in the generational saga of a Bengali family grappling with its roots while assimilating to America. I’d read Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel of the same name, but the film simply overwhelmed me. I was a teenager in suburban Sydney, Australia, when I went to the cinema in my local shopping center and watched Mira Nair’s The Namesake.
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