Packed with female book club members, a screening of Mira Nair’s The Namesake left no doubt about the film’s target audience. If anyone’s going to flock to this warm and likable tale, it’s going to be ...

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Adapted from the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, "The Namesake" conveys the melding of two very different cultures within a Bengali family living in New York City. The film's various conflicts and themes can ...

Mira Nair returns to her interests in class and immigrant life in this loving adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel "The Namesake." Even when she brought Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" to the screen, Nair ...

The University of Arizona women's basketball team (11-14, 2-12 in Big 12) will host the University of Colorado Boulder (18-8, 9-5 in Big 12) on Feb. 17 at 6 p.m. in the McKale Center. The Wildcats... ...

Kal Penn felt the heat while he was shooting "The Namesake." "It was hotter than we made it seem," Penn says of the segments of the film that were shot in Calcutta. " 'Cause when it really is 120 ...