Would you run away for love? From your past, your friends, your family... where is your home? The land you were born in, or the land you discover when forging a new bond?
When the film ventures to scenes centered around these topics, I was really enjoying it. However, when "Mississippi Masala" focuses on the plot of Denzel falling for an Indian/Ugandan woman in Mississippi and the dramatic heft of the film relies on people not accepting them together, I was a little bored. I think it's wonderful to look at, yet there were times where the sets seemed a little baron due to budget constraints. I have to give the director Mira Nair credit for nailing the exterior and dancing scenes with vast wide shots and wonderfully intimate close ups during dramatic peaks.
If you like romantic movies, this one could be for you, mainly due to the fact that the two leads do have good chemistry. Denzel is hard not to feel slightly charmed by in any project he's in and Sarita Choudary handles the romantic scenes with finesse. I would have liked to have seen more from her emotionally during her fight with her parents and other moments, but that could just be a credit to how good her parents were in this. Overall, a tame romance movie more focused on the racial divisions than the intimacy of an everlasting love.
When the film ventures to scenes centered around these topics, I was really enjoying it. However, when "Mississippi Masala" focuses on the plot of Denzel falling for an Indian/Ugandan woman in Mississippi and the dramatic heft of the film relies on people not accepting them together, I was a little bored. I think it's wonderful to look at, yet there were times where the sets seemed a little baron due to budget constraints. I have to give the director Mira Nair credit for nailing the exterior and dancing scenes with vast wide shots and wonderfully intimate close ups during dramatic peaks.
If you like romantic movies, this one could be for you, mainly due to the fact that the two leads do have good chemistry. Denzel is hard not to feel slightly charmed by in any project he's in and Sarita Choudary handles the romantic scenes with finesse. I would have liked to have seen more from her emotionally during her fight with her parents and other moments, but that could just be a credit to how good her parents were in this. Overall, a tame romance movie more focused on the racial divisions than the intimacy of an everlasting love.