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Director Mira Nair relates to Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair'

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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20040903
Author:Judy Stone, CONTRIBUTOR

WHETHER they were street kids, strippers or prostitutes in Bombay, Mira Nair has always had a soft, but not sentimental, spot for outsiders.

So now here is Becky Sharp, born on the wrong side of the tracks in mid-19th century London and determined to rise in the establishment. She's the extraordinary outsider heroine drawn by William Makepeace Thackeray in "Vanity Fair," a novel Nair first read when she was 16.

"What I loved about Thackeray's point of view," the director said while in San Francisco to promote the film, "was that he observed his own society in a very clear-sighted way and ...

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