Mississippi Masala

Tagline: Passion. Tradition. Mix it up.

Release Date: 1991-09-18

Duration: 118 minutes

Synopsis

Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the 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.