| "A
POIGNANT, AFFECTING look at growing up Indian in the white,
suburban South." |
|
Mira
Nair, Director
Mississippi Masala
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| "BRILLIANT . . . POST-ETHNIC . . . WICKEDLY FUNNY AND COMPELLING." |
|
Patricia
Falvo
New York Magazine
|
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| "A
TOUCHING, INSIGHTFUL STUDY of teens struggling to establish
their identities as both American and Asian Indian...Miss
India Georgia shows the joys and sorrows of growing up a member
of the second generation – and brings alive core issues
of assimilation and the meaning of being American." |
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Mary
Waters,
Harvard University
Author, Ethnic Options
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| "AFFECTIONATE,
RESPECTFUL, AND OFTEN SLYLY HILARIOUS, Miss India Georgia takes
us into the lives of four teenagers negotiating notions of femininity
derived from their Indian family backgrounds and from the American
South." |
|
Kirin
Narayan, University of Wisconsin
Author, Love, Stars and All That
|
| |
| "AN
INTIMATE LOOK at ethnic assimilation within the Indian and Pakistani
communities of modern-day Atlanta." |
|
Wexner
Center for the Arts
The Ohio State University
|
| |
|
"A
PERCEPTIVE, ENTERTAINING documentary about cultural assimilation"
|
|
Boston
Phoenix
|
| |
| "A WONDERFUL FILM...A delicate, poignant glimpse into the lives of four young Indian American women, that reveals the fraught worlds they live in." |
|
Meena Alexander,
City University of New York
Author, The Shock of Arrival:
Reflections on Postcolonial Experience
|
|
|
| "Miss
India Georgia explains why the struggle to remain Indian is
really A CLASSIC AMERICAN STORY." |
|
Caleb
Hellerman
Creative Loafing, Atlanta
|
| |
| "A remarkably candid look at how four young women of Indian descent struggle with the dual caste systems of their ancestral homeland and the modern suburban South...AN IMPRESSIVE, INTIMATE VIEW OF THE HIGH COST OF AMERICANIZATION." |
Joan Van Tassel
The Hollywood Reporter |
| |
| "A
SIGNIFICANT ADDITION to the body of work about the modern Indian
diaspora." |
|
Leela Jacinto
The Times of India
|
| |
| "Examines
the difficulty of fitting into American society, from dating
to being accepted by peers at school...OFFERS VALUABLE INSIGHT
INTO INDIAN CULTURE." |
|
Christian
Science Monitor
|
| |
|
"Friedman
& Grimberg couldn't have filmed a better (or more diverse)
cross-sectional representative group if they'd hired actors...The
warring-cultures point is made...four girls, four ways‚
unforgettably."
|
|
Cliff
Garboden
Boston Phoenix
|
| |
| "A
revealing look into the lives of four second-generation Asian-Indian
girls and their struggle to maintain a degree of cultural heritage
while defining themselves as American...A THOUGHTFUL EXAMINATION
THAT ESCHEWS PREACHINESS IN FAVOR OF INSIGHT." |
|
Jeff
Dick
Booklist
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