Mississippi Masala
- Denzel Washington: Demetrius Williams
- Sarita Choudhury: Mina
- Roshan Seth: Jay
- Sharmila Tagore: Jays woman Kinnu
- Charles S. Dutton: Tyrone Williams
- Ranjit Chowdhry: Anil
- Joseph Olita: Idi Amin
- Mohan Gokhale: Pontiac
- Mohan Agashe: Kanti Napkin
Mississippi Masala is an American Melodrama from the year 1991. Directed by the Indian film director Mira Nair.
Action
The dictator Idi Amin orders the expulsion of all Indians from the Cape, Uganda. Even the lawyer Jay, his wife Kinnu and Mina, whose little daughter must go.
Now Jay lives with his family in the Deep South of the United States. He works as a hotel manager, dreams of returning to Uganda and litigates to his old possession. Unlike Kinnu Mina and he does not want to get used to the life in the black Greenwood, even though he has many friends and is trying to do its utmost in order to be able to return to Uganda everything.
A car accident with a small fender bender brings Mina along with Demetrius, a black man who is in the U.S. South at home. They fall in love, which has many problems.
It comes to racial clashes between the families, but the love between Mina and Demetrius is too strong.
Mina and Demetrius escape her old life and let her strict parents' home behind to begin a new life.
Production
The gambling in Mississippi scenes were filmed in Mississippi, the gambling scenes in Uganda in Kampala.
Reviews
" " Mississippi Masala " is the budget forth a Hollywood ratios rather modest movie, but in terms of his talent, his landscapes and themes he's a great movie. Racism is at least superficially do not have the main theme of the film, instead Mina and Demetrius fight against a sense of cultural dislocation, which are a part of their heritage from each different reasons. "
"With ethno - socio-critical undertones staged as a plea for understanding film, [ ... ] as a comedy it lacks ease, as a study of consistency. "