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Mira Nair
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Was offered the job of directing
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
.
Lost hours of footage for 'Monsoon Wedding' when the negative was shipped to New York and x-rayed.
Teaching in Columbia University's film department (October 2002)
Dedicated her film
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
to memory of her father
Amrit Nair
(1924-2012).
Her brother, Vicky Nair, is based in Delhi and is opening a street food restaurant in Gurgaon.
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990
Was inspired to become a filmmaker after seeing
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
countless times as a young girl in India.
Mother, with husband
Mahmood Mamdani
, of son
Zohran Kwame Mamdani
(b. October 18, 1991).
Head of jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2002
First read
William Makepeace Thackeray
's 'Vanity Fair' when she was 16. She would later adapt it into a film.
Aunt of
Ishaan Nair
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