NAIR: …and some lemon, anything to approximate what we call in Calcutta jhal muri, which is a snack sold on the street. Professor MIRA NAIR (Director, "The Namesake" Columbia University, New York): She takes Rice Krispies, and she puts red chili powder and some peanuts… We don't have to wait for that because Mira Nair stopped by our studios yesterday, and she talked to me a little bit about the visual language she used to show the feelings of homesickness, for example, experienced by one of the characters in "The Namesake," Ashima, an immigrant from India. Now, the DVD of that film is out - complete with exclusive director's remarks. And this year, her film "The Namesake" was released - based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri. She adopted Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" to the screen. How to put a character's internal emotions into the language of film? Director Mira Nair has had some practice in that art. Adaptation poses a challenge to any director making a beloved book into a movie.
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