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  The Namesake

American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

122 Minutes

Sooni Taraporevala (screenplay)
Jhumpa Lahiri (novel)

Mira Nair

Irfan Khan....Ashoke Ganguli
Jagannath Guha....Ghosh
Ruma Guha Thakurta....Ashoke's Mother
Tabu....Ashima Ganguli
Sandip Deb....Music Teacher
Sukanya....Rini
Tanusree Shankar....Ashima's Mother
Sabyasachi Chakravarthy....Ashima's Father
Tamal Sengupta....Ashoke's Father (as Tamal Roy Choudhury)
Dhruv Mookerji....Rana
Supriya Choudhury....Ashima's Grandmother (as Supriya Devi)
Stuart Rudin....Crazy Wino
Heather MacRae....Nurse Patty
Sumitra Kanti....Calcutta House Staff
Michael Countryman....Mr. Wilcox

Contains moderate sex, soft drug use and accident scenes

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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