Mira Nair is impressed by Tabu 23rd Mar 2007
09.00 IST
By Agencies
Mira Nair describes Tabu as a talented actress with the ability to pull off portraying a character who ages in her new film The Namesake .
Tabu plays a young Indian immigrant bride who joins her husband in the United States, then a mother dealing with living in a foreign country, and finally a widow in her adopted country.
“Tabu listens acutely. The whole world, life itself is reflected in her eyes,” Nair said in an interview published in a newspaper.
“That's why I cast her as Ashima, who has to be the dewdrop bride at 21 and have the gravitas of a widow at 50,” Nair added.
‘The Namesake’, to be released on Friday, is based on a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian-born American author Jhumpa Lahiri and is about an Indian family's assimilation into American culture.
Mira Nair is impressed by Tabu
