--- title: 'Mississippi Masala (1991)' type: 'film' director: 'Mira Nair' released: '1991-09-18' runtime_minutes: 115 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Romance' countries: - 'India' - 'United Kingdom' - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/mississippi-masala-1991' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102456/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Mississippi Masala (1991) 1991 · 115 min · Drama, Romance · India, United Kingdom, United States ## Synopsis Mississippi Masala is a 1991 romantic drama film directed by Mira Nair, based upon a screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala, starring Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, as a young Ugandan Asian woman whose family was expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's 1972 expulsion of Asian and Roshan Seth. Set primarily in rural Mississippi, the film explores an interracial romance between an African-American man and an Indian-American woman. ## Credits - **Director:** [Mira Nair](https://cinepixo.com/people/mira-nair) - **Producer:** [Mira Nair](https://cinepixo.com/people/mira-nair) - **Screenplay:** [Sooni Taraporevala](https://cinepixo.com/people/sooni-taraporevala) - **Original Music Composer:** [Lakshminarayana Subramaniam](https://cinepixo.com/people/lakshminarayana-subramaniam) - **Director of Photography:** [Edward Lachman](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-lachman) ## Cast - [Charles S. Dutton](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-s-dutton) - [Denzel Washington](https://cinepixo.com/people/denzel-washington) - [Roshan Seth](https://cinepixo.com/people/roshan-seth) - [Sharmila Tagore](https://cinepixo.com/people/sharmila-tagore) - [Joe Seneca](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-seneca) - [Sarita Choudhury](https://cinepixo.com/people/sarita-choudhury) - [Mira Nair](https://cinepixo.com/people/mira-nair) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/mississippi-masala-1991 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1785725); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.