abstract:Sooni Taraporevala (born 1957) is a screenwriter and photographer, currently based in India. She is best known as the screenwriter of Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay (1988), all directed by Mira Nair.
But Nair and her screenwriter, SooniTaraporevala, try so hard to be all things to all racial and ethnic groups that by the end the story ceases to make sense on its own terms.