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From: Cape Times (South Africa)
Date: 20070504
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THE NAMESAKE. Directed by Mira Nair, with Kal Penn, Tabu, Irfan Khan, Jacinda Barrett, Glenne Headly, Linus Roache and Daniel Gerroll.

Review: DENNIS LIM

Indian-born, New York-based director Mira Nair has repeatedly enacted tales of culture clash in her films, but never with quite as much warmth and thoughtfulness as she brings to The Namesake.

Coming off a botched literary adaptation - the garbled, proto-feminist take on William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair - she turns her attention to a novel that is not only more manageably scaled but also, for this ...

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