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The Namesake DVD

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Kal Penn faces the greatest problems of assimilation as he is torn between tradition and modernity in this new drama.

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Released
30 July 2007
Directors
Actors
Format
DVD 
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 
Classification
Runtime
119 minutes 
Features
Anamorphic, PAL 
Barcode
5039036034562 
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play  Two Worlds One Journey American-born Gogol the son of Indian immigrants wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers despite his family&39;s unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways Actors Irfan Khan Kal Penn Jagannath Guha Ruma Guha Thakurta Tabu Sandip Deb & Sukanya Director Mira Nair Certificate 12 years and over Year 2006 Screen Widescreen Languages English Duration 2 hours and 2 minutes (approx)

Bollywood drama based on the best-selling novel by Jhumpa Lahiri. Ashoke (Irfan Khan) and Ashima (Tabu) are a young couple who are brought together in an arranged marriage and soon leave Calcutta to seek their fortune in America. Before long, Ashima gives birth to a baby boy, and pressed to choose a name, they dub the infant Nikhil, though he soon picks up the nickname Gogol, after Ashoke's favourite author. By the time the child is old enough to attend school, he insists upon being called Gogol at all times, and he displays little interest in his Indian heritage. Several years on, Gogol has decided he wants to be called Nick (and is now played by Kal Penn) and has become a thoroughly Americanised teenager, openly rebelling against his parents, smoking marijuana in his room, and dating Maxine (Jacinda Barrett), a preppy blonde from a wealthy family. Ashoke and Ashima are uncertain about how to deal with their son's attempts to cut himself off from their culture, but Nick begins expressing some uncertainty himself when he meets Moushumi (Zuleikha Robinson), a beautiful girl who also comes from a family of Indian expatriates.