Mira Nair stays fiercely desi in a global landscape

MUMBAI: The Reluctant Fundamentalist' is not the easiest of novels to turn into a film, so Mira Nair has to be the one to do it. She told filmmaker Shyam Benegal that the movie has been the "hardest adaptation" she's done so far. Nair, with author Mohsin Hamid, has made considerable changes to the original text of Reluctant.... But the mystery remains, she promised.

Benegal, recalling queues for Nair's early film Salaam Bombay! in Finland, asked if she expected a "worldwide audience". An audience member asked if she had become "too big" to make films like Salaam...! again. Nair didn't think so. Big-budget studios approached her after the success of Monsoon Wedding, and that was Indian. She was "fiercely desi". "Because my roots are strong, I can fly."

Films that are "specifically local," she explained, "become universal". But Reluctant ... occupies a more " global landscape" from the start. It's been shot in four continents. She knew she wanted to make the film when she visited Lahore in 2004. "Although we grew up in Orissa, my father had come from Lahore," she said. Also, she was "tired" of films that told the story of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan only from the western perspective. "I wanted to tell the story from both sides," she said. She started Maisha (free labs that teach locals filmmaking in east Africa) for the same reason.

But she's a filmmaker first. While "every frame in a film is political", she doesn't make films to only deliver a message either. She has her organizations, Maisha and Salaam Balak Trust, for that.

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