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Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release Date: Mar 16, 2007
Running Time: 122 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue English, Bengali and Hindi
Country Of Origin: United States
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"The Namesake" is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old. Although parents Ashoke and Ashima long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage. Even Gogol's name represents the family's journey into the unknown.
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Moushimi Mazumdar
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Maxine
Lydia
Sally
Sonia
Ghosh
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PETER TRAVERS -
March 7, 2007
Cultural assimilation is a specialty for Mira Nair, the India-born, Manhattan-based director who found the right balance in Mississippi Masala and Monsoon Wedding and soars with her film version of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake . In Calcutta, circa the 1970s, Ashoke (Irrfan Khan) and Ashima (Tabu) agree to an arranged marriage and to starting their new lives in Manhattan. It's a struggle. The birth of their son, Nikhil, who is given the pet name Gogol, after the Russian author Ashoke…
What's in a name? For Mira Nair, the director of Monsoon Wedding and Mississippi Masala, it's everything. With her adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's best-selling novel, Nair employs the name given to the American-born son of Bengali parents as a metaphor for the clash between cultural heritage and cultural assimilation. As The Namesake reveals, Bengali tradition requires a child to possess both a "good name," for formal purposes, and a "pet name," for use by family and friends. Gogol Ganguli (Kal…
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