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Mira Nair's The Namesake has completed 15 years of its release. A Twitter thread by a cinephile revealed the casting choices of the film and how Rani Mukerji was chosen initially to play Tabu's role.
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“The Namesake” is Mira Nair’s ninth feature, and I suspect the
one closest to her heart. It tells the story of a young couple who have an
arranged marriage in Calcutta and move to New York, where they discover each
other and their new country, and have two children. Then the story shifts to
center on their son, while keeping them in the picture. Nair, born in India,
educated at Harvard, married to a Ugandan, must have felt a resonance on every
page of her source, the beloved novel by Jhumpa Lahiri.