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Mississippi Masala

Mississippi Masala

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 18, 1991

Runtime

1h 58m

Genres

Drama, Romance

User Score

63%

Original Title

Mississippi Masala

Production Companies

Cinecom Pictures, Mirabai Films, Film4 Productions, The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Director

Mira Nair

Budget

$8,000,000

Revenue

$7,310,000

Description

Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.