Mississippi Masala 1991
Directed by Mira Nair | Starring: Denzel Washington, Charles S. Dutton, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth
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.