Mississippi Masala

1991 · 118 min · EN · R · 6.3 (70 votes)

Dir. Mira Nair · Starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore, Charles S. Dutton, Joe Seneca · Music L. Subramaniam

“Passion. Tradition. Mix it up.”

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Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.

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A vibrant, yet tense, exploration of love and prejudice in the American South. It feels like a slow-burn romance set against a backdrop of cultural friction, with moments of both quiet beauty and simmering conflict.

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