While traveling by train to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur, Calcutta born, Bengali-speaking Ashoke Ganguli meets with fellow-traveler, Ghosh, who impresses upon him to travel, while Ashoke is deep into a book authored by Nicholai Gogol. The train meets with an accident, and after recuperating, Ashoke re-locates to America, settles down, returns home in 1977 to get married to aspiring singer, Ashima, and returns home to New York. Shortly thereafter they become parents of a boy, who they initially name Gogol, and a few years later both give birth to Sonia. The family then buy their own hous... e in the suburbs and travel to India for the first time after their marriage. The second time they travel to India is when Gogol and Sonia are in their late teens, and after a memorable visit to Kolkata and then to the Taj Mahal, they return home. Gogol falls in love with Maxine Ratliff and moves in with her family, while Ashoke spends time traveling, and Sonia moves to California, leaving Ashima all her by herself. The Ganguli family will be destined to travel to India again soon - this time under very different circumstances - and after all have endured life-changing events.Read moreLess
Just OK
I had high expectations from this film, I wouldn't say it was an excellent one. It's just too slow!
much ado about nothing...
With so many high stars given to this film this may come to criticism from some people to give a low rating to this movie. This is the story of an ordinary bengali woman moved to US to live with her equally ordinary bengali husband, to raise a family and eventually to see them growing up and get caught in the usual east west cultural conflicts...the film is well made and the acting and direction is very good. But I just cannot understand the point of making such a movie. It has practically no story. Is it a drama, or a thriller, or a tear jerker, an adventure? sadly none of the above. The object of movie watching is to get a story and see the events unfolding with a story and an ending, whet...
Its title might suggest a 1960s American Western, but The Namesake mixes East and West. A young Bengali immigrant family in New York contemplates integration and belonging in their adopted homeland.
Director Mira Nair retreads a path through which many other filmmakers have trampled in recent years, but adds a much-needed dose of realism. Forget the reductive characters of the sympathetic immigrant fables of Gurinder Chadha - here, there is plenty of bad blood and bad behaviour in the portrayal of the problems faced by many a second-generation US immigrant family: how to balance your family heritage with chasing that exclusively American dream.
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