Comments on: 21 Things You Didn’t Know About The Namesake

By: yamy

yamy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:40:33 +0000

a mi me gusto

By: June

June — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:29:39 +0000

I love this movie!! and is kinda strange but i feel kinda related to Gogols story, since im half mexican and half english, so im never mexican enough (im redhaired and very very pale) and never english enough (of course i have a mexican accent when i talk). Plus my bf (who i love 2 dead) is hindu (or indian??) so as u can see my life is very multicultural, but i try to see that as a good thing instead a bad one.

By: Sal da man

Sal da man — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:48:36 +0000

To Amna: Urdu’s derived from Farsi, Arabic, AND Hindi.

By: dtsp

dtsp — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:25:45 +0000

Gogol (the writer) was not Russian. He was Ukrainian.

I’ve watched this film several times and read the book. This is not Gogol’s story. This movie belongs to Tabu to the extent that she is indelible in the role, but also, the way Nair films it. This movie is about the mother.

By: Noyona

Noyona — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:59:10 +0000

Amna Zaim, Urdu’s grammar comes from the languages you mention, but the vocabulary does come from Hindi. Urdu was born out of the battlefields and camps of India and is a mixture of languages, mainly Hindi and Persian.

By: melissa

melissa — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:48:35 +0000

What is the song Ashima sings at the end…..LOVE IT! iT’S NOT ON THE SOUNDTRACK EITHER??

By: deepak

deepak — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:17:28 +0000

awesome movie!!

By: Random

Random — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:08:24 +0000

The book was absolutely amazing! What makes it even better is the fact that most immigrants, like me, can relate to it.

By: Bob Davidson

Bob Davidson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:54:04 +0000

Saw the film last night. Loved every minute.

By: Prasannah

Prasannah — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:27:02 +0000

I read the article. It’s brilliant I must say. When I watched the movie, I felt it was father love for a son and son realices it very. I was not aware of the book other at that moment.

Kal Penn was a surprice element for me in this movie. I liked him in Herald and Kumar. But never expected him to a serious movie like this. And when I read these things you have written it’s makes me think this guy’s got latents

Basically I cast was really good Khan and Tabu superb performance. How much of effort they all have put make movie.

Nice article.