![]() While Kinnu runs a small liquor shop and Jay has settled down to live with family members that run a chain of motels, Mina lends a helping hand in the upkeep of the motels. ![]() As the camera captures the picturesque landscape within which he, his wife Kinnu (Sharmila Tagore) and young daughter Mina live, the family struggles to come to terms with leaving Kampala, the only home they have ever known, for Mississippi.Īs the years pass, we see Mina (Saritha Choudhary), a smart and sensitive child back in Uganda grow up into a headstrong and witty woman in Mississippi. Jay, a lawyer with a rigid moral compass, has called dictator Idi Amin “evil” in a radio interview with the BBC, in response to the order of expelling South Asians from Uganda in 1972. ![]() Mississippi Masala opens on a note of tension, when Jay (Roshan Seth) seems to be traveling, rather trespassing, in the dead of the night in Uganda with his friend Okelo. Alternative Entertainment A look back at Mira Nair’s tale of Home: Mississippi Masala by Aditi Singh November 25 2021, 12:00 am Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins, 51 secsĪditi Singh revisits the film Mississippi Masala, thirty years after its release, and recalls the metaphors of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’.
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