Mississippi Masala (1991)1h58
Drama · Romance
Director Mira Nair (6.4 avg)
Also directed New York, I Love You, Queen of Katwe, Vanity Fair, and 21 more
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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Cast
Denzel Washington
Sarita Choudhury
Roshan Seth
Sharmila Tagore
Charles S. Dutton
Joe Seneca
Ranjit Chowdhry