A Suitable Boy Director Mira Nair Has A Fall, Undergoes Emergency Surgery - EXCLUSIVE

Mira Nair, who is India’s most precious cinematic export to the West, is currently healing after an emergency surgery. Now how did that happen? Read on.

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A Suitable Boy Director Mira Nair Has A Fall, Undergoes Emergency Surgery - EXCLUSIVE
A Suitable Boy’s suitably accomplished director Mira Nair is currently not feeling as top-of-the-world as the great reviews for her series should make her feel. Mira, who is India’s most precious cinematic export to the West, is currently healing after an emergency surgery. Now how did that happen?  Out for a walk in the park  she tripped  and fell. When I touched base with Mira she said, “I had a very painful shoulder surgery after a  fall in the park . I am nursing myself back to sturdiness slowly and steadily.”

For Mira it hasn’t been an easy year. She lost two of her most favourite actors. First it was Ugandan child prodigy Nikita Pearl Waliga who played a pivotal part  in  Mira Nair’s film Queen Of Katwe, she  died of  an incurable  brain tumour  on February  15. Soon after Mira lost one of her dearest friends Irrfan Khan.

Mira describes it as a ‘double blow’. As she recovers, she is “thinking, processing, ruminating, writing”

Mira who had directed the critically acclaimed film Queen Of Katwe in 2016 has set aside much of the last for years to the stage adaptation of Monsoon Wedding. “It was eight years of my life. It took us a long time to get here. We didn’t just take Broadway veterans and put them on stage. We dealt with the stage adaptation of Monsoon Wedding organically. We got authentic talent like Vishal Bhardwaj. We had 21 songs in the stage adaptation.The entire story of Monsoon Wedding on stage  was impelled by music.We had really creative talent of the highest order. “



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