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Mississippi Masala

(1992)

''Mississippi Masala'' documents the immigrant experience

THE HISTORY How color-blind is the contemporary South? Jim Crow is gone, but how do Indian immigrants fare there? Here, a community of Indians (who've come to America after being ejected from Idi Amin's Uganda in the 1970s) tries to remain culturally intact, even as one of their own (Sarita Choudhury) falls for a local African-American man (Denzel Washington).

THE STRUGGLE In Indian-born director Mira Nair's first American film, the couple's romance runs into predictably bigoted responses from both communities.

WHY YOU'LL WATCH IT Leading man Denzel is at his most affably low-key and charming, and in a romantic mode that we hardly ever get to see him play anymore.

Originally posted Apr 26, 2006
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