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Mississippi Masala
Drama, Romance
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their Uganda home, twentysomething Mina finds herself co-operating a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. Her passionate romance with 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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value emotionally grounded romances that confront inherited prejudice, cultural displacement, and the difficult negotiations of family loyalty.
- Tone
- romantic, bittersweet, warm
- Payoff
- swoon, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- migration, interracial love, racism, family conflict, belonging
- Setting
- late twentieth century, motel town and immigrant communities in the American South
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