‘Namesake' studies cultural traditions
Jhumpa Lahiri 's "The Namesake,” a novel about an Indian family torn between the old life in Calcutta, India , and the challenges of its new reality in America , could have proved too epic for a film-size condensation, but director Mira Nair makes seamless adjustments and films the saga of the Ganguli family with heart and intelligence.
The story begins in the late 1970s with Ashima ( Bollywood actress Tabu) ag...
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