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Missives on media, marketing and more. Edited by Amar Patel

July 24, 2020

Black and brown love – it's complicated

by Amar Patel in film


Lovers Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury in Mira Nair’s 1991 film Mississippi Masala
Lovers Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury in Mira Nair’s 1991 film Mississippi Masala

How did I miss Mississippi Masala growing up? Thanks to inclusion champions The Other Box for dropping this into my world. Starring Denzel Washington (fresh off winning a Best Supporting Actor in Glory) and first-time actor Sarita Choudhury, this curio of a film from 1991 portrays a romance we rarely get to see on screen. It also exposes the uncomfortable truth about prejudice between people of colour.

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TAGS: mississippi masala, mira nair, denzel washington, sarita choudhury, Idi Amin, East African Indians, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore, Bonnie Greer, Charles S Dutton, Aanjjan Srivastav, anti-blackness, racism, POC, Roger Ebert, Mayukh Sen, South Asians, Kampala, Greenwood, unconscious bias