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Mississippi Masala (1991)
Directed by Mira Nair
Overview
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.
Rated R | Length 118 minutes
Actors
Denzel Washington | Sarita Choudhury | Roshan Seth | Sharmila Tagore | Charles S. Dutton | Joe Seneca | Ranjit Chowdhry | Mohan Gokhale | Mohan Agashe | Tico Wells | Yvette Hawkins | Aanjjan Srivastav | Konga Mbandu | Sahira Nair | Dipti Suthar | Varsha Thaker | Ashok Lath | Natalie Oliver | Karen Pinkston | Willy Cobs | Mira Nair | Rajika Puri | Sharon Williams | Cyreio Hughes | Stacy Swinford | Rick Senn | Jim Haffey | Dillon Rozell Gross | Larry Haggard | E. W. Colvin | Joyce Murrah | Kevin McNeil | Rev. Fred Matthews | Mahlon Bouldin | Buddy St Amant | James Dale | Ben Burford | Sam Sherrill | Alix Henry Sanders | Jerone Wiggins | Sadie Carr | Richard Crick | Alix W. Sanders | Shung Moo Joe | Hollis Pippin | Dewey Buffington | Tony McGhee | J. D. Barrett | Tre'Demont Spearman | Argentina Moore | Nora Boland | Patsy Garrett | Michael Wawuyo | Phavin Parbario | Emanuel Mudara | Immaculate Byakatonda | Amrit Panesar | Jimmy Din | Bonnie M. Lubega | Sammy E. D. Senkumba | Mayambala Ssekasi | Joseph Olita | Wilberforce Muteta