The Namesake Comments

  • Rosella 2022-09-06 09:44:32

    On the persistence and abandonment of immigrant families under cultural...

  • Emmanuel 2022-08-10 22:57:18

    Watching the movie, you can feel how good the original novel will be. The subtle and sadness is endowed by the temperament of the novel itself. Lahiri wrote for herself and also for those immigrants who have the same experience as her. The life and death of an Indian family's wedding and funeral is also a life. The actor Tabu Meiyan and Lahiri who play the mother seem to be (the writer himself is also a big beauty), and the acting skills are even more amazing. The momentary short-circuit in the...

  • Amy 2022-08-10 22:41:41

    Not everything in the US is...

  • Sophie 2022-08-10 22:26:52

    Every immigrant should...

  • Scotty 2022-08-10 20:43:45

    Indian emotions are so...

  • Timothy 2022-08-10 20:19:36

    The film is extremely smooth and beautiful like poetry. Adding Indian music is incredible. I really misunderstood traditional Indian music and was fooled by musicals. Slow down the singing to reach people's hearts, thinking it was a word from God. I saw the shadow of my parents from Gogol’s parents. Love cannot be expressed in words. We face the generation gap with our parents with indifference. They are helpless and we don’t want to make progress. I don't know how to say it, anyway, this is...

Extended Reading
  • Elsa 2022-10-25 17:17:11

    fine

    Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian-American writer. A bit like the Chinese-American writer Amy Tan. In 2000, Jhumpa published her first book, "Interpreter of Maladies" (probably translated into "passenger" in Chinese? But most of the people in the book who need to take the pulse are not sick people, but...

  • Ole 2022-11-02 02:38:37

    Follow your blessings——Comment on the movie "Same Name and Same Surname"

    This is a movie related to the name. An Indian couple Asoke and Asima came to the distant and unfamiliar United States to earn a living immediately after their wedding. Husband Asoko named his son Gogol born in the United States after his favorite author.
     
    When Gogol grew up, he loathed his weird...

The Namesake quotes

  • Ashoke Ganguli: There is something I always wanted to ask you, but never had the courage. All those years ago, why did you say yes to me?

    Ashima A. Ganguli: You were the best of the lot.

    Ashoke Ganguli: Huh?

    Ashima A. Ganguli: Better than the widower with four children or the cartoonist with one arm. I also liked your shoes.

    Ashoke Ganguli: Oh. Oh, okay.

    Ashima A. Ganguli: Hmm, you want me to say "I love you," like the Americans.

  • Gogol Ganguli: Who's Pierre?

    [silence]

    Gogol Ganguli: Are you having an affair?

    [more silence]

    Moushumi Mazumdar: Maybe it's not enough that we are both Bengali.

    Gogol Ganguli: That's not why I love you.

The Namesake

Director: Mira Nair

Language: English,Bengali Release date: April 6, 2007