1991 [repack] — Mississippi Masala

The story follows Mina (Sarita Choudhury, in a stunning debut), a fiery, confident young woman whose family fled Idi Amin’s brutal 1972 decree expelling Asians from Uganda. They landed not in India—a homeland they’d never seen—but in the American South. Mina’s father, Jay (Roshan Seth), is a dignified lawyer consumed by a decades-long legal battle to reclaim his family’s property and honor. Her mother, Kinnu (Sharmila Tagore, a legend of Indian cinema), is the pragmatic heart trying to plant new roots in a foreign soil.

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