Mississippi Masala Screening

Join the UF Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship+ for the next event in our Migration in Film Series!

They will screen Mississippi Masala at The How Bazar, 2/7 at 6pm, followed by refreshments and a panel discussion with local experts

The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South are blended and simmered into a rich and fragrant fusion feast in Mira Nair’s luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It’s there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington) challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region’s Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues…