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The Namesake
Directed by
Mira Nair
PG-13
2006
2h 2m
Drama
7.5
85%
79%
6.8
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American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
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Cast of The Namesake
Kal Penn
Gogol / Nikhil
Irrfan Khan
Ashoke Ganguli
Tabu
Ashima Ganguli
Jacinda Barrett
Maxine Ratliffe
Zuleikha Robinson
Moushumi Mazoomdar
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Ashoke's Mother
Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Ashima's Father
Sahira Nair
Sonali Ganguli
Supriya Choudhury
Ashima's Grandmother
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Mashi / Novel
Kharaj Mukherjee
Chhotoo
Glenne Headly
Lydia
Brooke Smith
Sally
Jagannath Guha
Ghosh
Heather MacRae
Nurse Petty
Michael Countryman
Mr. Wilcox
Sukanya
Rini
Rupak Ginn
Uncle
Linus Roache
Mr. Lawson
Josh Grisetti
Jerry
The Namesake Ratings & Reviews
Pajiba
Roxana Hadadi
The Namesake captures the interior struggle between centuries of history and the appeal of living only in the now, and it's grippingly beautiful and overwhelmingly moving.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
What holds it together are the subtle loving performances by Tabu and Khan, both Bollywoood stars. They never overplay, never spell out what can be said in a glance or a shrug, communicate great passion very quietly.
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
It is a saga told in small pieces, a patchwork of short scenes that tumble after each other almost apologetically, as if they would love to linger a little longer, but there is too much to tell and only so much time in which to do it.
Austin Chronicle
Toddy Burton
The Namesake delivers such a tactile presence that it's difficult not to leave feeling as if you've just struggled through a New York winter, attended an Indian wedding, and returned from a Calcutta holiday.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Intelligent and insightful, The Namesake celebrates family in a unique way.
Arizona Republic
Randy Cordova
This is a wonderful movie.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
There's more love and heart in The Namesake than in many Hollywood dramas. I just wish the filmmakers had spread it around. Cross-cultural understanding should be a two-way street.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The Namesake is three-fourths of a fine film. Which is, of course, far better than most.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Mira Nair has made one of the best movies about the immigrant American experience ever. And even if you know nothing about India and its customs, The Namesake is not a movie you have to get into.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
Deserves credit for its graceful attempt to tell an all-American story with warm, unromanticized characters trying to discover who they are in a land too eager to impose its own definition on them.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The Namesake has a deep, alluvial poetry to it, like a mighty river reaching the sea. It's mysterious and ordinary, insightful and banal, rambling and precise, and it is altogether unexpected.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
[Director] Nair and screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala bring the novel's velvety heart to the screen. The film glides smoothly over the years, touching down to give us the vignettes that make up a life.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Mira Nair's The Namesake conveys a palpable sense of people as living, breathing creatures who are far more complex than their words might indicate.
Chicago Sun-Times
Teresa Budasi
Though the film seems hurried in the last half hour -- most likely to get as much of the book covered as possible -- it still maintains a loveliness bridged by these two generations of Gangulis, whose disparate life experiences cannot bond them.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Watching love build; slowly, elegantly, wordlessly; between Ashima and Ashoke is spellbinding, while the complex societal pangs assaulting Gogol are palpable and real no mater what a person's skin color or cultural background.
Decent Films
Steven D. Greydanus
The film is generally engaging but feels elusively incomplete. One could say it is about the journey rather than the destination.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
A thoughtful and engrossing study of identity, assimilation, and finding the way home.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Like the best-selling novel it's based on, The Namesake chronicles two generations of an Indian immigrant family with compelling flow.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The Namesake brims with intelligence, compassion and sensuous delight in the textures, sights and sounds of life -- all the way from the Taj Mahal to Pearl Jam.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
It's so beautifully done.
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