CELEBRATE ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH
Brought to you by GET HAAPI KY & The Kentucky Theatre
"Sarita Choudhury and Denzel Washington's romantic chemistry lights up the screen in Mira Nair's observant and sexy tale of cultures clashing."
—Rotten Tomatoes
The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South are blended and simmered into a rich and fragrant feast in Mira Nair's luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) 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 (Denzel Washington) challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism, colorism, culture clash, and displacement with big-hearted humor and keen insight, Nair serves up a sweet, sexy, and radical celebration of love's power to break down the barriers between us.
ABOUT GET HAAPI KY
GET HAAPI KY is a scrappy group of Lexington AAPI community members all volunteering their time to create a robust series of cultural events to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month in Lexington and the Bluegrass region.
