Mira Nair

New Delhi, Jan 7 : Noted filmmaker Mira Nair discussed her upcoming film 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' at a news conference here on Wednesday.  

Eye on the Oscars: Song & Score 2009: Flight sequences prove biggest challenge -- For Gabriel Yared, the challenge of "Amelia" -- Mira Nair's biopic of aviatrix Amelia Earhart starring Hilary Swank -- was to "capture the majesty, mystery and freedom of flight."  

I braved freezing weather recently to hear Mira Nair speak at the President’s Forum at the Upper East Side’s Asia Society ( video ). It crossed my mind that I could write a story on her work. In her spare time she directed a short film in New ...  

Movie Soundtrack Review: This is a review of the motion picture score Amelia by Gabriel Yared. “There’s opportunities missed here, big ones” Amelia is the story of the courageous woman who attempted to fly around the world, but sadly and strangely, disappeared over the pacific ocean. Directed by Mira Nair and starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere and [...]  

EDITOR’S NOTE: Every day for the next month, indieWIRE will be republishing profiles and interviews from the past ten years (in their original, retro format) with some of the people that have defined independent cinema in the first decade of this century.  Today, we’ll step back to 2002 with an interview indieWIRE’s Jacque Lynn Schiller had with Mira Nair upon the release of her greatly acclaimed “Monsoon Wedding” INTERVIEW: Salaam India! …  

News: Fox Home Entertainment have announced the US DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of Amelia on 2nd February 2010. Hilary Swank stars as legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart in this historical drama directed by Mira Nair. Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor also star...  

Mira Nair's biopic is a tinny and barnacled affair, showcasing a peculiarly awful performance from Hilary Swank, says Xan BrooksAmelia Earhart vanished somewhere over the Pacific in 1937, during the final leg of a round-the-world flight. Now, ­belatedly, the wreckage has washed ashore. Mira Nair's biopic is a tinny and barnacled affair, showcasing a peculiarly awful performance from Hilary Swank as the self-styled "vagabond of the air", who...  

Even with a two-time Academy Award winner, a Golden Globe winner, and Golden Globe nominee, director Mira Nair couldn’t put together a biopic worthy of moviegoers’ money, let alone any awards.  

'Why are there so few women directors? Oh my God, I want to shake everyone and ask them that question'What got you started?My impatience with waiting for life to happen. For seven years, I made films in the cinéma vérité tradition – photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.What was your big breakthrough?The world premiere of Salaam Bombay! in...  

Amelia (PG) (111 min.; dir. Mira Nair; Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Abrams, Joe Anderson, Christopher Eccleston, Cherry Jones) historical drama: Nair's biopic, "Amelia," about the world's most famous aviatrix, is ...  

Hilary Swank whoops a lot in Mira Nair's biopic of pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who vanished somewhere over the Pacific ocean. For Xan Brooks, the crash can't come soon enoughXan BrooksHenry Barnes  

From award-winning director Mira Nair and starring Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank in the title role, comes the true story of the woman who won the hearts of the nation with her daring dreams of flight.Celebrated as the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Amelia Earhart led a bold and uncompromising life as a woman ahead of...  

Nair's on FireThe latest film to burst into a Broadway and West End musical is Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair's Golden Lion winner at Venice in 2001. Nair will direct the musical version in 2011 and is currently overseeing the musical numbers being adapted from the film's bestselling soundtrack. She is collaborating with the producers of another film-to-stage hit, Hairspray. "I haven't directed for the theatre since I was a student," Mira told...