Mississippi Masala

About Mississippi Masala

Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their Uganda home, twentysomething Mina finds herself co-operating a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. Her passionate romance with 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.

Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala is a 1991 romance film. The film is filed under immigrant, interracial relationship, southern USA, and interracial romance.

Denzel Washington appears as Demetrius Williams, Sarita Choudhury as Mina, Roshan Seth as Jay, and Sharmila Tagore as Kinnu. Released in September 1991, it runs 118 minutes.

The screenplay is by Sooni Taraporevala. In the United States it streams on Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV channel, and HBO Max.

West Side Story, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof make useful companions to Mississippi Masala, all filed under romantic. TMDB voters put it at 6.4 out of 10 across 105 votes and it carries a R rating.