Mississippi Masala

1991

English

6.8

♡ 13

92%

64%

Drama

immigrant

interracial relationship

Mira Nair Director

Denzel Washington as Demetrius Williams

Tico Wells as Dexter Williams

Sarita Choudhury as Meena

Joe Seneca as Williben Williams

Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina 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 challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.