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Another Peek; Mira Nair takes a fresh look at Thackeray's Vanity Fair

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From: Little India
Date: 20040930
Author:Melwani, Lavina

Melwani, Lavina
Little India
09-30-2004
In life, nothing is ever lost. Not even the books you read in your languid
childhood. Director Mira Nair pored over William Makepeace Thackeray's
Vanity Fair when she was a schoolgirl and now decades later, she has
reinterpreted that classic piece of literature in a lush cinematic saga
from Hollywood.

"This story has been one of my absolute favorite novels," she says. "You
know many of us have colonial hangovers in India and we are steeped in
English literature. I went to an Irish Catholic boarding school in Simla
and studied deeply Shakespeare and Keats and ...

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