Mira Nair
Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.
She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature, Salaam Bombay! (1988), won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Nair used the proceeds to establish an organisation for street children, called the Salaam Baalak Trust in India. She often works with longtime creative collaborator, screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala, whom she met at Harvard.
Nair has won a number of awards, including a National Film Award and various international film festival awards, and was a nominee at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and Filmfare Awards. She was also awarded the India Abroad Person of the Year-2007, which was presented by Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo, Inc, and India Abroad Person of the Year-2006.
Nair is married to political scientist Mahmood Mamdani. Their son, Zohran Mamdani, is Mayor of New York City.
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Movies (40)
Uma Thurman: Hollywood's Silent Warrior
2024 · Self - director
The Many Miracles of Household Saints
2024 · Self
This Changes Everything
2019 · Self
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017 · Self
Reina de Katwe: Un acto de amor
2016 · Director
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
2016 · Self
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016 · Self
Restoring the Apu Trilogy
2015 · Self
A Fork, a Spoon & a Knight
2015 · Director, Writer
Words with Gods
2014 · Director
Femme
2013 · Self
El Reticente Fundamentalista
2013 · Director
Solace in the Dark
2011 · Self
Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
2011 · Herself
Amelia
2009 · Director
8
2008 · Director, Producer
How Can It Be
2008 · Director
Nueva York, te amo
2008 · Director
Migration
2008 · Director, Executive Producer
Positive
2007 · Executive Producer
Lights, Action, Music
2007 · Self
The Namesake
2007 · Director, Producer
Vanidad
2004 · Director
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004 · Self
11’09”01—September 11: India
2002 · Director
September 11
2002 · Director
Hysterical Blindness
2002 · Director
Bollywood Calling
2001 · Mira
The Laughing Club of India
2001 · Director
Monsoon Wedding
2001 · Director, Producer
My Own Country
1998 · Saryu Joshi, Producer, Director
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
1997 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Perez Family
1995 · Woman Buying Flowers, Director
The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat
1993 · Director, Writer
Mississippi Masala
1991 · Gossip Aunty #1, Director, Producer
Salaam Bombay!
1988 · Director, Producer, Story
India Cabaret
1985 · Interviewer, Director
So Far from India
1983 · Interviewer/Narrator, Director, Producer
Jama Masjid Street Journal
1979 · Director
Amri
· Director, Producer, Writer
