Click to play videoNew Delhi: It’s a tale of two cities, a story of identity and identity crisis.
Based on the Pulitzer-winning book by Jhumpa Lahiri, Mira Nair's film The Namesake made its entry at the Rome Film Festival after premiering to lukewarm reviews at the Toronto Film Festival.
The film tells the story of two generations of a family from Kolkata who move to New York.
“My world is much more Moshoumi and Gogol and galleries and Ivy League bonding and going to country homes with your American friends. It is as much that as it is Calcutta and political theatre on the streets. Jhumpa, in her wonderful story, knits these two worlds kind of seamlessly and with the specificity that I know," says Mira.
The movie focuses on Ashima played by actor Tabu, a young Indian bride who is trying to keep a foot in both cultures, carrying on her Indian traditions while raising her children to be young Americans.
"If you look at it and in six weeks you've aged from 20 to 45 and so much that has happened in that period then it is very intense,” says Tabu.
Ashima and Ashok's children, particularly their son Gogol essayed by Kal Penn, become the centre of the story as they live an intensely American lifestyle and begin to pull away from their Indian roots.
The Namesake is slated to hit the Indian screens in March 2007.
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