Mira Nair Nominate for Her Movie

Mira Nair is known as the first women who make a film which different and cross-culture film. Mira Nair bagged an Oscar nomination for her debut movie Salaam Bombay. Catch her in conversation as the auteur makes the right noises with her new work- a screen adaptation of Pakistani writer Mohsin Hamid’s novel ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist.’ There is a story that you used to challenge your teachers. True?I had come with my father on deputation for two years in Delhi and gone to a proper school (Loreto Convent).

When I went back to this convent school in Bhubaneswar, I found education was pretty lousy there. By that time I had tasted what is called decent education. People would come from villages and take over a school field; as a prop they would have only a set of painted stairs, I used to go with my driver and while everybody thought I didn’t enjoy going to such places, I used to sit there and world emerge in front of me.

The incredible Prahlad natak, and other mythological dramas were spelt out in front of me. That was the fuel of my first excitement of doing anything with the art.You are a Punjabi, but you grew up on Orissa. How did that happen?My father was an IAS of Orissa cadre. I was born and brought up in Orissa…I spent 20 years of my life there. I went to Stewart School in Bhubaneswar with my brother.