Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their Uganda home, twentysomething Mina finds herself co-operating a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. Her passionate romance with 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.
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MOVIE INFORMATION
Release Date: September 18, 1991
Type: Movie
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Language: English, , Kiswahili
Subtitle Language: English
Runtime: 118 minutes
Writer: Sooni Taraporevala
Director: Mira Nair
Cast
Denzel Washington (Demetrius Williams)
Sarita Choudhury (Mina)
Roshan Seth (Jay)
Sharmila Tagore (Kinnu)
Charles S. Dutton (Tyrone Williams)
Joe Seneca (Williben Williams)
Ranjit Chowdhry (Anil)
Mohan Gokhale (Pontiac)
Mohan Agashe (Kanti Napkin)
Tico Wells (Dexter Williams)
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