Mississippi Masala
- Released on
- Runtime
- 118 mins
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
Cast
- Denzel Washington
- Sarita Choudhury
- Roshan Seth
- Sharmila Tagore
- Charles S. Dutton
- Joe Seneca
- Ranjit Chowdhry
- Mohan Gokhale
- Mohan Agashe
- Tico Wells
- Yvette Hawkins
- Aanjjan Srivastav
- Konga Mbandu
- Sahira Nair
- Dipti Suthar
- Varsha Thaker
- Ashok Lath
- Natalie Oliver
- Karen Pinkston
- Willy Cobs
- Mira Nair
- Rajika Puri
- Sharon Williams
- Cyreio Hughes
- Stacy Swinford
- Rick Senn
- Jim Haffey
- Dillon Rozell Gross
- Larry Haggard
- E. W. Colvin
- Joyce Murrah
- Kevin McNeil
- Rev. Fred Matthews
- Mahlon Bouldin
- Buddy St Amant
- James Dale
- Ben Burford
- Sam Sherrill
- Alix Henry Sanders
- Jerone Wiggins
- Sadie Carr
- Richard Crick
- Alix W. Sanders
- Shung Moo Joe
- Hollis Pippin
- Dewey Buffington
- Tony McGhee
- J. D. Barrett
- Tre'Demont Spearman
- Argentina Moore
- Nora Boland
- Patsy Garrett
- Michael Wawuyo
- Phavin Parbario
- Emanuel Mudara
- Immaculate Byakatonda
- Amrit Panesar
- Jimmy Din
- Bonnie M. Lubega
- Sammy E. D. Senkumba
- Mayambala Ssekasi
- Joseph Olita
- Wilberforce Muteta
Director
- Mira Nair
Producers
- Michael Nozik
- Mira Nair
