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this Article Home > Movies > Reviews  Tabu, Irrfan are brilliant
in Namesake  Merril Diniz | March 09, 2007 14:07 IST  A still
from Namesake Related Articles Exclusive: Namesake premiere, NY
Namesake will make you cry 'Namesake is very uncannily my
story!' How The Namesake came to be The Namesake is excellent
Nudity in Mira Nair's Namesake  When a book is made into a film,
especially one that is penned by a Pulitzer-Prize winning
author, there's more scope for potential disaster. Will the
characters, locations, plots and sub-plots pan out as
effectively on celluloid as they do in the reader's imagination?
Mira Nair's The Namesake, adapted from Jhumpa Lahiri's book by
the same name (she won the Pullitzer Prize in 2000 for
Interpreter of Maladies), does not disappoint. In fact, it 