
An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.... (Full plot summary below)
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An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
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| MovielineStephen FarberNair and her screenwriter, Sooni Taraporevala, sometimes lose their focus trying to juggle half a dozen subplots. But it's nice to see a movie with a broad reach. |
| Hartford CourantMalcolm JohnsonThe colors of human life are bountifully and boldly illuminated in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala, a bittersweet-and-hot love story pairing an African-America carpet cleaner with an Indian motel maid in the old-new Deep South. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyUnlike Lee's Jungle Fever, which also deals with interracial romance, Nair's film is non-judgmental, taking neither moral ground nor faulting any group. Released when national boundaries were crumbling it was a poignant work about the meaning of home. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonIt may be longwinded here and there, but Mississippi Masala jumps with life. |
| TheWorldJournal.comFrank OchiengWashington and Choudhury definitely make for an attractive ethnic couple in Nair's cross-cultural love story. However, this staid romancer doesn't escape the distinction of its conventional makeup. |
| User ReviewPrivate UEvery time this movie comes on I don't care what I"m doing I stop everything to watch. Plus everyone loves Denzel!! |
| User ReviewShon SWhat a wonderful romance about interracial dating and love. People will see that even people of Color can be some bigots. Denzel and Sarita heat up the screen. |
| User ReviewFrank HMy Favorite Love Story, This Movie Is So Real And Touching |
| User ReviewDEE WASH "THE KING"ZEL DELIVERS AS USUAL IN ONE OF HIS FIRST FILMS. |
| User ReviewManny RNot one but TWO fine actors??!?! What more do you want?!!? |