The Namesake: A Conversation Between Mira Nair and Jhumpa La

One of the best screen adaptations I've ever seen. There is happy marriage between the narrative of the novel and that one of the film. Well done!

yea same here

amazing book, and very relatable to . The message is thought-provoking and deep.

i thought the movie was supposed to take place in Boston not in New York

the new england area in general if you read the novel

yeah

i hate it when books are in boston or movies are filmed in boston and then they make it liik like the movie took place in new york or new jersey

like mall cop

No need to insult me. I do appreciate literature. To me, the Namesake book was labored and heavy. It was boring beyond belief. The present tense was unbelievably pretentious and it really made me question Jhumpa's natural ability as a writer. Like I said, IOM was loads better. It was natural and each story was short and sweet, very poignant. Not this labored snore fest of a "story" called the namesake.

I can tell from these clips and the trailers that the movie is going to be good (going to buy it soon), but I really liked the book. I understand why you didn't like the book, although I don't agree with you. The book was probably 70 percent narration, very little dialogue. My only complaint about the book is the character Sonia was never fully developed. She was like a straw man. I still have no idea who she really was or what she was like.

God! Mira is inspiring
One of the very few directors in hollywood/bollywood who are genuinely unpretentious and serious about portraying life as it is and have the intelligence to not make such cinematographic attempts look ugly/clumsy