When she travels to 1970s New York with him soon after, her husband, played by Irfan Khan, last seen in The Warrior, is still a stranger to her. Before meeting Ashok, the husband her parents have arranged for her, the mother, Ashima, played by Tabu, furtively tries on his shoes (emblazoned "Made in USA") outside. Identity and integration are at the core of the story. But here's a story that's firmly in her territory: an adaptation of Jumpha Lahiri's true-to-life novel, following two generations of a Bengali family in New York. Since Monsoon Wedding, Mira Nair has looked like a director operating a little too far outside her comfort zone - with her hit-and-miss Vanity Fair adaptation and before that, a glum TV movie called Hysterical Blindness set in 1980s New Jersey.
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