
Mira Nair
Biography
Mira Nair (born October 15, 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 film, 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. She used the proceeds of the film, to establish an organization 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.
She 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.
Her most recent films included Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon, The Namesake, and Amelia.
Mira Nair is married to political scientist Mahmood Mamdani. They have a son, Zohran Mamdani, who is the Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.
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Acting (17 movies)

Bollywood Calling
2001

The Many Miracles of Household Saints
2024

India Cabaret
1985

Mississippi Masala
1991

Femme
2013

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017

Solace in the Dark
2011

The Perez Family
1995

Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
2016

This Changes Everything
2019

Lights, Action, Music
2007

Restoring the Apu Trilogy
2015

Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
2011

Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004

Uma Thurman: Hollywood's Silent Warrior
2024

My Own Country
1998
Directing (25 movies)

Monsoon Wedding
2001

11 Minutes, 9 Seconds, 1 Image
2002

Vanity Fair
2004

Amelia
2009

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
1997

Mississippi Masala
1991

The Perez Family
1995

The Namesake
2006

Hysterical Blindness
2002

Salaam Bombay!
1988

8
2008

The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2013

My Own Country
1998

So Far from India
1983

India Cabaret
1985

The Laughing Club of India
2001

The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat
1993

Migration
2008

Words with Gods
2014

A Fork, a Spoon & a Knight
2015

Queen of Katwe
2016

New York, I Love You
2008

How Can It Be
2008

11’09”01—September 11: India
2002
Jama Masjid Street Journal
1979
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Salaam Bombay! | 1988 | Producer | 
| Mississippi Masala | 1991 | Producer | 
| The Day the Mercedes Became a Hat | 1993 | Writer | 
| Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love | 1997 | Writer | 
| Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love | 1997 | Producer | 
| My Own Country | 1998 | Producer | 
| Monsoon Wedding | 2001 | Producer | 
| The Namesake | 2006 | Producer | 
| Positive | 2007 | Executive Producer | 
| Migration | 2008 | Executive Producer | 
| 8 | 2008 | Producer | 
| A Fork, a Spoon & a Knight | 2015 | Writer |