Mississippi Masala (1991)

6.337

Drama Romance

118 min min

1991

Denzel Washington Sarita Choudhury Roshan Seth Sharmila Tagore Charles S. Dutton

Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.