Studio Info/Running Time: Fox Searchlight, 122 mins. Based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake traces the slow, stilted assimilation of a couple who immigrate to ...

Film director Mira Nair is adapting Jhumpa Lahiri's novel about an Indian immigrant to the United States. Nair talks about the challenge of bringing a book to life on screen. Adaptation poses a ...

“”The Namesake”” is the title of a book that’s been on the tongues of many reading groups for a while. Jhumpa Lahiri’s successful novel tells a moving story of how first-generation Americans struggle ...

Mira Nair returns to her interests in class and immigrant life in this loving adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel "The Namesake." Even when she brought Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" to the screen, Nair ...

Kal Penn felt the heat while he was shooting "The Namesake." "It was hotter than we made it seem," Penn says of the segments of the film that were shot in Calcutta. " 'Cause when it really is 120 ...

Indian-American filmmaker Mira Nair has been renowned for films like Salaam Bombay!, Vanity Fair and many more. One of her critically acclaimed, artistically rich films, The Namesake, became the topic ...

It’s a small moment in The Namesake, directed by Mira Nair and adapted from the first novel by Jhumpa Lahiri. Gogol Ganguli has grudgingly brought his girlfriend, Maxine Ratliff, home to meet his ...

Packed with female book club members, a screening of Mira Nair’s The Namesake left no doubt about the film’s target audience. If anyone’s going to flock to this warm and likable tale, it’s going to be ...