Tag: Mira Nair

Queen of Katwe Script

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Year:2016
Director:Mira Nair
Written by:William Wheeler (Screenplay), Tim Crothers (Book)

Script Synopsis:A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.
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Salaam Bombay! Script

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Year:1988
Director:Mira Nair

Script Synopsis:Before Slumdog Millionaire came Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair’s Oscar-nominated drama tells the moving story of life on the streets of Bombay as seen through the eyes of Chaipu, a twelve-year-old boy living rough in the city.
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Mississippi Masala Script

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Year:1991
Director:Mira Nair
Written by:Sooni Taraporevala (Writer)

Script Synopsis:An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
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Perez Family Script

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Year:1995
Director:Mira Nair
Written by:Robin Swicord (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela, whom he hasn't seen in decades.
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Amelia

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Year:2010
Director:Mira Nair
Written by:Susan Butler (Author), Mary S. Lovell (Author), Ronald Bass (Writer), Anna Hamilton Phelan (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
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