Mira Nair - Biography

Last Editor: bnaramir				Mira Nair Biography -   Name : Mira Nair Profession : Director Birth Details : born October 15, 1957 Personal quotes : "I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring. They Spouse : ? (? - ?) (divorced) Mahmood Mamdani (? - present) 1 child Mitch Epstein (? - ?) (divorced)

Mira Nair Trivia -

Aunt of Ishaan Nair One son, Zohran, born 1991, with her Ugandan husband Mahmood Mamdani. Her brother, Vicky Nair, is based in Delhi and is opening a street food restaurant in Gurgaon. Was offered the job of directing Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). First read 'Vanity Fair' when she was 16. She would later adapt it into a film. Lost hours of footage for 'Monsoon Wedding' when the negative was shipped to New York and x-rayed. Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990 Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2002

Mira Nair Detailed Biography -

Mira Nair (born October 15, 1957) is a New York-based Indian film director. She was born in Orissa, India, and was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay!, won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for an Oscar. She often collaborates with screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala. Mira Nair was born in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, where her father was employed. She was the youngest of three children from a middle-class Punjabi family. Her father was a civil servant and her mother a social worker. Mira did her early schooling at Catholic schools. She studied sociology in Delhi University, where she became involved in political street theater and performed for three years in an amateur drama company. She left for the US at age 19 with a scholarship at Harvard. At the beginning of her career as a film artist, Nair directed four documentaries; India Cabaret, about the lives of strippers in a Bombay nightclub, won the award at the American Film Festival in 1986. Her last master work Monsoon Wedding, a film about a chaotic Punjabi Indian wedding, was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice film festival. She currently teaches at Columbia University in New York City and is married to the academic Mahmoud Mamdani. Her latest project is Maisha, a film lab to help East Africans and South Asians learn to make films. Maisha is headquartered in Nair's adopted home of Kampala, Uganda.