marianna
05-06-08, 07:29 AM
Good movie. Loved it!
Story
A third-generation Indian-Ugandan family residing in Kampala, is expelled from the country in 1972 by the Idi Amin regime. The father, Jay (Roshan Seth) moves with wife, Kinnu (Sharmila Tagore) and daughter, Mina (Sarita Choudhury) to Greenwood, Mississippi. to live with family members who own a chain of motels there.
In 1990, 24-year-old Mina, who cleans at Anil's (Ranjit Chowdhry) family's motel (the Monte Christo), falls in love with Demetrius (Denzel Washington), a local African American carpet cleaner. The respective families erupt in turmoil after the pair are confronted by members of the Indian family during a weekend of pleasure in Biloxi.
Ultimately, the two families cannot come to terms with the inter-racial pair, who flee together in Demetrius' van. Both families need to move on, both emotionally and physically, in order to grow. Jay also needs to change. After a brief return to Kampala to attend a court proceeding on the disposition of his confiscated Ugandan house, Jay relinquishes his long-nurtured dream of returning to Uganda, the place he considered home.
The script was written in Brooklyn, NY after extensive research by Nair, Taraporevala, and their team, in Mississippi and Uganda. The Mississippi based scenes were filmed in Greenwood, Mississippi. The motel used in the filming of the motel scenes still stands next to the railroad crossing on US Highway 82 in Greenwood. The Mississippi bases scenes were filmed in Grenada, Mississippi at The Monte Cristo hotel, which was located on U.S. Hwy 51 in Grenada, Mississippi. A Renasant Bank stands on the location of the original hotel, which was demolished in the late nineties.
Story
A third-generation Indian-Ugandan family residing in Kampala, is expelled from the country in 1972 by the Idi Amin regime. The father, Jay (Roshan Seth) moves with wife, Kinnu (Sharmila Tagore) and daughter, Mina (Sarita Choudhury) to Greenwood, Mississippi. to live with family members who own a chain of motels there.
In 1990, 24-year-old Mina, who cleans at Anil's (Ranjit Chowdhry) family's motel (the Monte Christo), falls in love with Demetrius (Denzel Washington), a local African American carpet cleaner. The respective families erupt in turmoil after the pair are confronted by members of the Indian family during a weekend of pleasure in Biloxi.
Ultimately, the two families cannot come to terms with the inter-racial pair, who flee together in Demetrius' van. Both families need to move on, both emotionally and physically, in order to grow. Jay also needs to change. After a brief return to Kampala to attend a court proceeding on the disposition of his confiscated Ugandan house, Jay relinquishes his long-nurtured dream of returning to Uganda, the place he considered home.
The script was written in Brooklyn, NY after extensive research by Nair, Taraporevala, and their team, in Mississippi and Uganda. The Mississippi based scenes were filmed in Greenwood, Mississippi. The motel used in the filming of the motel scenes still stands next to the railroad crossing on US Highway 82 in Greenwood. The Mississippi bases scenes were filmed in Grenada, Mississippi at The Monte Cristo hotel, which was located on U.S. Hwy 51 in Grenada, Mississippi. A Renasant Bank stands on the location of the original hotel, which was demolished in the late nineties.