The Namesake: Directed by Mira Nair. With Kal Penn, Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Jacinda Barrett. American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways. Recording the immigrant experience in a direct and resonating prose, The Namesake illustrates how a clash of cultures may erupt between generations within a single family, and how, ultimately, home becomes a microcosm of the self. Most of The Namesake takes place in parts of New England. As the story opens, Ashoke Ganguli is a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts ... The Namesake is the story of two generations of the Gangulis, a family of Indian immigrants to the United States. When we first meet Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli they are living in a small apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about to welcome their first child into the world.
