(Applause Books). This the first book to examine the films of the acclaimed and popular Indian-born and Harvard educated filmmaker, Mira Nair.

The Films of Mira Nair: Diaspora Vérité presents the first, full-length scholarly study of her cinema.

But she has always embraced the darker side, too, and in this personal story, she tells how her parents' divorce and her own broken first marriage have influenced her imagination.

Yet, this larger-than-life, brighter-than-sunshine genius is, at heart, a seeker. Read on as Gunjan Jain goes behind the scenes with Mira Nair, revealing the real woman behind the camera.

"The Films of Mira Nair presents the first, full-length scholarly study of her cinema.

But she has always embraced the darker side, too, and in this personal story, she tells how her parents' divorce and her own broken first marriage have influenced her imagination.

These two essays, written exclusively for this Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook, introduce an amazing panoply of images of people and places shot mainly in New York and Calcutta during the making of the movie, accented by excerpts from Lahiri ...

But she has always embraced the darker side, too, and in this personal story, she tells how her parents' divorce and her own broken first marriage have influenced her imagination.