The Namesake

Irfan Khan, Tabu, Sukanya, Sabyasachi Chakravarthy, Supriya Choudhary, Cindy Tolan, Jagannath Guha, Thakurta, Sandip Deb, Tanusree Shankar, Tamal Sengupta, Dhruv Mookerji, Stuart Rudin, Heather MacRae, Rupak Ginn, Soham Chatterjee, Gargi Mukherjee, Pallavi Shah, Noor Lahiri Vourvoulias, Linus Roache, Jhumpa Lahiri

Many tearjerker tales of desi nostalgia have disappeared without a trace. But The Namesake is sure to be received well when it is commercially released early next year. The celebrity audience on November 1 has already passed the verdict is "Excellent". Read More

THE NAMESAKE explores human relationships, besides raising several poignant issues in those two hours. The diverse cultures and how most children belonging to Asian American families find themselves in a quandary. The clash of the old and the new,when asked to follow their traditional values. Read More

The element of realism has been very strong in all of Nair's films. 'The Namesake',too, is very realistic and credible, not just in its look but also in the way the story has been treated and presented by Mira Nair. Read More

The film has a lot of subtle humor and a tinge of blatant passion. A lovemaking scene between Tabu and Irrfan Khan despite being barefaced is still shot effectively. Since the film travels for around 20 years there are a lot of era leaps, some of which come smoothly while others brusquely. Read More

Suffused with a superbly sensuous supporting performances and steeped in an ethos of enormous cultural reverberation in The Namesake the acutely lyrical camera takes us from the quiet streets of New York to the picture postcard bustle of Kolkata. Read More