The Namesake
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Synopsis
The Gangulis family comes to the U.S. from India in order to experience a world of limitless opportunities--only to be confronted with the perils and confusion of trying to build a meaningful life in a baffling new society. On the heels of their arranged marriage, Ashoke and Ashima jet off from sweltering Calcutta to a wintry New York where they begin their new life together. Virtual strangers to one another and with Ashima now living in a new and very strange land, their relationship quickly takes a turn when Ashima gives birth to a son. Under pressure to name him quickly, Ashoke settles on Gogol, after the famous Russian author--a name that serves as a link to a secret past and, Ashoke hopes, a better future. But life isn't as easy for Gogol as his parents might wish. As a first-generation American teenager, Gogol must learn to tread a razor-thin line between his Bengali roots and his American birthright in the search for his own identity. As Gogol attempts to forge his destiny--rejecting his given name, dating a rich American girl, heading to study architecture at Yale--his parents cling to their Bengali traditions. But their paths keep crossing with both comic and painfully revelatory consequences until Gogol begins to see the links between the world his parents left behind and the new world that lies in front of him.
Director
Mira Nair
Cast
Irrfan Khan
Amy Wright
Sahira Nair
Krishna Dikshit
Mia Yoo
Noor Lahiri Vourvoulias
Jeb Brown
Linus Roache
Soham Chatterjee
Gretchen Egolf
Jhumpa Lahiri
Bobby Steggert
Lakhan Das
B C Parikh
Supriya Devi
Kharaj Mukherjee
Dan Mccabe
Partha Chatterjee
Dhruv Mookerji
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Maximiliano Hernandez
Pallavi Shah
Zuleikha Robinson
Jagannath Guha
Gargi Mukherjee
Michael Countryman
Jacinda Barrett
Jo Yang
Reshmin Chowdhury
Jessica Blank
Benjamin Bauman
K. Srinivasan
Justin Rosini
Glenne Headly
Christie Moreau
Kal Penn
Josh Grisetti
Kartik Das
Mitali Bhawmik
Daniel Gerroll
Heather Macrae
Gary Cowling
Sebastian Roché
Baylen Thomas
Sumitra Kanti
Sudipta Bhawmik
Brooke Smith
Peter Dunbar
Sandip Deb
Tamal Raichowdhury
Kousik Bhowal
Stuart Rudin
Tanushree Shankar
Rupak Ginn
Sibani Biswas
Crew
Terry Adams
Julien Louis Marc Aletti
Gina R. Alfano
Allan Amin
Harish Amin
Robyn Aronstam
Shankar Asari
Federico Aubele
Ann Marie Auricchio
Ulhas Bapat
Megha Barnabas
Russell Barnes
Puloma Basu
Tuli Basu
Avani Batra
Ashley Bearden
Kenny Becker
Kristin Cameron Bernstein
Martin Bernstein
Arjun Bhasin
Aditi Bhattacharya
Sammy Bhattacharya
Mitali Bhawmik
Garrett Boehling
Ami Boghani
David Bolton
Jason Bonilla
Jayanta Bose
Joyati Bose
Joydeep Bose
Brian Bowles
Norman Bryn
James S Buckman
Robert Buckman
Milton Buras
Jeff Butcher
Daniella Capistrano
Stephanie Carroll
Thom Chadly
Emily Chakraborty
Kajol Chakraborty
Tanmoy Chakroborty
Rachel Chancey
Debjit Chanda
Kiran Chandra
Kiran Chandra
Pinaki Chatterjee
Indranil Chowdhury
Praveen Chowdhury
Pritam Chowdhury
Reshmin Chowdhury
Salil Chowdhury
Sarah Clarke
Linda Cohen
George Collins
Yana Collins Lehman
Ryan Collison
Kathleen Corgan
Kelley Cribben
Gourmet Cuisine
Lori Cuisinier
Keith Culbertson
Ian Dalsemer
Chandan Das
Kartik Das
Lakhan Das
Nirmal Chandra Das
Rajendra Kumar Das
Rajendra Kumar Das
Santi Das
Surjyakiran Das
Arun Dasgupta
Subal Dasgupta
Sudhin Dasgupta
Sudhin Dasgupta
John M Davis
John Davis
Maurice Davis
Vijay Dayal
Michael Decasper
Mulchand Dedhia
Rita Dey
Manny Diez
Adam Dorn
Natalie N. Dorset
Lori Keith Douglas
Lori Keith Douglas
David Dreishpoon
Aref Durvesh
John Durzba
Geeta Dutt
Lynette D¿souza
Ann Edgeworth
The Elements
Fred Elmes
Karen E. Etcoff
Curtis Europe
Michelle Farrell
Billy Featherstone
James Feldman
Jennifer Freed
Samuel Friedman
Jay Fung
Mara Galus
Anup Kumar Ganguli
Pushan Ganguli
Kenneth Garrison
Michel Gaucher
Nazafrin Gazdar
Steve Geiger
Chris Gelles
Gregory Gelles
Abbot Genser
Ganesh Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh
Sumana Ghosh
Alex Gimeno
Kelly Gleason
Nupur Goenka
Sandeep Gondalekar
Stone Gossard
Mahesh Gowda
D Dylan Gray
Dylan Gray
Indranil Halder
Matthew Hales
Thalia Harithas
Rebecca Harper
Michael Hartel
Asal Hejazi
Sean Hogan
Michael Holmstrom
Anadil Hossain
Richard Hubka
Shantanu Hudlikar
Zakir Hussain
Stephen Hussey
Caroline Irons
David Isyomin
Shernaz Italia
Maya Iwabuchi
Abdul Jabbar
Shankar Jaikishan
Dean James
Saurabh Jana
Allyson C Johnson
Tess Joseph
Abhishek Kandelwal
Bill Kane
Sivan Kaplan
Paul Katz
Jim Kelly
Eric Kench
Bryan Kenneth
Bismillah Khan
Dilshat Khan
Sonia Deepak Khanduri
Saurabh Kikani
Yukie Kito
Yvonne De Kock
Thomas Kodros
Robin Koenig
Elliot Koss
Yasushi Kotani
Connie Kozaleck
G Monic Kumar
Niladri Kumar
Bolai Kundu
Jhumpa Lahiri
Suttirat Larlarb
Eric Lasco
David Laurentin
Sean Leahy
Kurt Lennig
Scott Liapis
Denzil Linhares
Sara Loewenthal
Jonathan Lumley
Thomas Lynch
Nitin Madan
Ellen Mahlke
Sukanta Majumdar
Nalini Malini
Raghu Mandal
Lydia Marks
Matthew Mars
Taylor Marshall-green
Edgar Martin
Nitya Mehra
Hollis Meminge
Bruno Michels
Sam Mills
Naeem Mohaiemen
Nadia Mohammad
Christina Morales
Kellie Morrison
Urmilla Lal Motwani
Milan Moudgill
Basab Mullik
James Murphy
Film Details
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Limited Release in United States March 9, 2007
Released in United States 2006
Released in United States December 2006
Released in United States October 2006
Released in United States on Video November 27, 2007
Released in United States September 2006
Released in United States Spring March 9, 2007
Shown at Dubai International Film Festival (Operation Cultural Bridge) December 10-17, 2006.
Shown at London Film Festival (Film on the Square) October 18-November 2, 2006.
Shown at Rome Film Festival (Premiere) October 13-21, 2006.
Based on the novel "Namesake" written by Jhumpa Lahiri; published by Houghton Mifflin Company September 1, 2003.
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at London Film Festival (Film on the Square) October 18-November 2, 2006.)
Limited Release in United States March 9, 2007
Released in United States Spring March 9, 2007
Released in United States September 2006 (Shown at Telluride Film Festival September 1-4, 2006.)
Released in United States October 2006 (Shown at Rome Film Festival (Premiere) October 13-21, 2006.)
Released in United States on Video November 27, 2007
Released in United States December 2006 (Shown at Dubai International Film Festival (Operation Cultural Bridge) December 10-17, 2006.)
Source material won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize.
