NAMESAKE, THE

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• Release Year: 2006
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: The Greatest Journeys Are The Ones That Bring You Home.; ; Based upon the best-selling novel by Jhumpa Lahiri and brought to the screen by acclaimed director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding), this epic family saga 'brims with intelligence, compassion, and sensuous delight' (Chicago Tribune). Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle) stars as Gogol Ganguli, a suburban teenager caught between his Indian roots and his American birthright. Gogol and his Indian-born parents must somehow strike a balance between age-old traditions and modern-day sensibilities as they search for a patch of common ground. An inspirational tale about the ties that bind us all, The Namesake is 'marvelous, moving... funny and sexy' (Entertainment Weekly).
• Cast: Irfan Khan, Jagannath Guha, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Tabu, Sandip Deb, Sukanya, Tanusree Shankar, Sabyasachi Chakravarthy, Tamal Sengupta, Dhruv Mookerji, Supriya Choudhury, Stuart Rudin, Heather MacRae, Sumitra Kanti, Michael Countryman, Kousik Bhowal, Rupak Ginn, Soham Chatterjee, Gargi Mukherjee, Pallavi Shah, Jhumpa Lahiri, Noor Lahiri Vourvoulias, Linus Roache, Josh Grisetti, Kal Penn, Justin Rosini, Dan McCabe, Bobby Steggert, Sahira Nair, B.C. Parekh, Sibani Biswas, Zuleikha Robinson, Lakhan Das, Kharaj Mukherjee, Glenne Headly, Daniel Gerroll, Jacinda Barrett, Amy Wright, Brooke Smith, Christie Moreau, Jo Yang, Krishna Dikshit, Kartik Das, Gary Cowling, Sudipta Bhawmik, Gretchen Egolf, Baylen Thomas, Jeb Brown, Jessica Blank, Mia Yoo, Benjamin Bauman, Sebastian Roché, Maximiliano Hernández, Partha Chatterjee, Mitali Bhawmik, Marcus Collins, Sandi DeGeorge, Mira Nair, Sooni Taraporevala, Lydia Dean Pilcher, Frederick Elmes, Allyson C. Johnson, Nitin Sawhney
• Director: Mira Nair
• Runtime: 2:02
• Company: Entertainment Farm, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fox Searchlight Pictures, UTV Motion Pictures
• Media Format: Movie