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Her debut Salaam Bombay won the directors award at the Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for an Oscar.

Mira Nair was born in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, the youngest of three children from a middle-class family. Her father was a civil servant and her mother a social worker. She did her schooling in Bhubaneswar and Simla. She studied sociology in Delhi University . Here, she became involved in political street theater and performed for three years in an amateur drama company. She left for the US at age 19 with a scholarship at Harvard.

Her most recent work Monsoon Wedding, a film about a chaotic Punjabi Indian wedding was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice film festival.

Her film credits include

• So Far from India
• Salaam Bombay (Hello Bombay)
• Mississippi Masala
• The Perez Family
• Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
• My Own Country
• Monsoon Wedding
• 9'11''01 September 11
• Hysterical Blindness (for HBO)
• Vanity FairThe novel Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray satirizes middle-class English society of the early 19th century. As usually is the case with many 19th century novels, Vanity Fair was published serially in 1847 and 1848 before

She currently teaches at Columbia UniversityColumbia University officially known as Columbia University in the City of New York is a private institution of higher education. It is one of the world's foremost research universities and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1754 under a royal charter in New York.

External link

• Mirabai Films - Official website of Mira Nair and her production. Site contains biography, photos, etc
• IMDb entry - IMDb entry for Mira Nair