Mississippi Masala
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9/18/1991Runtime
118 minsOverview
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.
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EnglishBudget
$8,000,000Revenue
$7,310,000Homepage
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A tender but unflinching look at two people falling in love across rigid family expectations and deep racial divides in 1990s Mississippi. The film balances intimate romance with the painful complexities of displacement, belonging, and prejudice.
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