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For Mira Nair, 'Vanity' Project Called Her Name

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040829
Author:Anne Thompson

Mira Nair knows that her best movies have been the ones that are the most challenging, independent and personal, films such as "Monsoon Wedding" and "Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love." But it's hard to resist Hollywood's siren call.

When Focus Features offered Nair the film version of William Makepeace Thackeray's ladder-climbing classic "Vanity Fair," the Harvard-educated Indian director just couldn't say no.

"Since I was 16 I have loved this novel," Nair says.

The film, which opens Wednesday, is both ambitious -- an 18th- century period piece with a $23 million budget -- and sprawling. The shoot ...

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