Mississippi Masala

Directed by Mira Nair

With Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore and Charles S. Dutton

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.