Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows FanStore News Showtimes

Mira Nair

Highest Rated: 95% Monsoon Wedding (2001)

Lowest Rated: 19% Amelia (2009)

Birthday: Oct 15, 1957

Birthplace: Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, India

Indian born director Mira Nair began to earn critical buzz for her early documentary films, but with her feature debut "Salaam Bombay" (1988), she was catapulted into the international spotlight with Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. Throughout Nair's career she made films both in the United States and in India, earning independent and film festival notoriety for the colorful family ensemble "Monsoon Wedding" (2001) and the considerably grittier "Namesake" (2006), while finding success among mainstream audiences with the interracial romantic drama "Mississippi Masala" (1992), starring Denzel Washington. The common thread throughout Nair's filmmaking career was a fascination with people on the margins of society, culminating in their struggle to both conform as well as maintain their cultural identity; a struggle that the director, herself, could no doubt relate to.

Show Less Show More

Highest rated movies

95% 87% Monsoon Wedding Watchlist 94% 86% Queen of Katwe Watchlist
93% 93% Salaam Bombay!
Watchlist
92% 64% Mississippi Masala
Watchlist
85% 79% The Namesake
Watchlist
77% 66% 11-09-01: September 11
Watchlist
75% 63% Hysterical Blindness
Watchlist
60% 58% The Perez Family
Watchlist
57% 61% The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Watchlist
51% 50% Vanity Fair
Watchlist
View All Mira Nair photos

Mira Nair

Mira Nair Mira Nair Mira Nair at arrivals for QUEEN OF KATWE Premiere, El Capitan Theatre, Los Angeles, CA September 20, 2016. Photo By: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Mira Nair at arrivals for THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2013, Tribeca Performing Arts Center (BMCC TPAC), New York, NY April 22, 2013. Photo By: Gregorio T. Binuya/Everett Collection MONSOON WEDDING, director Mira Nair, 2001, (c)USA Films THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, from left: director Mira Nair, Liev Schreiber, on set, 2012. ph: Ishaan Nair/©IFC Films AMELIA, from left: Richard Gere, director Mira Nair, on set, 2009. ph: Ken Woroner/©Fox Searchlight AMELIA, from left: Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, director Mira Nair, on set, 2009. ph: Ken Woroner/©Fox Searchlight AMELIA, director Mira Nair (front), on set, 2009. ph: Ken Woroner/©Fox Searchlight VANITY FAIR, Mira Nair, 2004, (c) Focus Features View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ayiti mon amour Executive Producer - 2016
94% 86% Queen of Katwe Director $8.9M 2016
57% 61% The Reluctant Fundamentalist Director $519.5K 2012
19% 31% Amelia Director $14.2M 2009
No Score Yet 20% 8 Director - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Migration Director,
Executive Producer 		- 2008
85% 79% The Namesake Director,
Producer 		$13.6M 2006
51% 50% Vanity Fair Director $16.1M 2004
77% 66% 11-09-01: September 11 Director $120.0K 2002
75% 63% Hysterical Blindness Director - 2002
95% 87% Monsoon Wedding Director,
Producer 		$13.9M 2001
No Score Yet 100% My Own Country Director,
Producer 		- 1998
42% 71% Kama Sutra Director,
Writer,
Producer 		$4.1M 1996
60% 58% The Perez Family Director $2.8M 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat Director - 1993
92% 64% Mississippi Masala Director,
Producer 		$7.3M 1991
93% 93% Salaam Bombay! Director,
Producer 		- 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet So Far From India Director - 1983

TV

Credit
38% 49% National Treasure: Edge of History Executive Producer 2022-2023
68% 56% A Suitable Boy Director 2020-2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter Guest 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Discovery Atlas Narrator 2007