Mississippi Masala
MovieTitle | Mississippi Masala |
User score | 6.4 |
Release date | Sep 18, 1991 |
Genre | Drama, Romance |
Director | Mira Nair |
Production country | United Kingdom, United States of America |
Production companies | Cinecom Pictures, Mirabai Films, Film4 Productions, The Samuel Goldwyn Company |
Budget | $8,000,000 |
Revenue | $7,310,000 |
Run time | 118 min. |
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.