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Short Films by Mira Nair

Mira Nair on THE LAUGHING CLUB OF INDIA

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    Directed by Mira Nair • 2001 • India

    This documentary by Mira Nair explores the power of laughter through the strangely popular phenomenon of laughing clubs in contemporary Bombay.

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    11'09"01—September 11

    Directed by Mira Nair • 2002 • United States

    Based on events surrounding the September 11, 2001, disappearance of Salman Hamdani, a young Pakistani American man from Queens, this film portrays his mother’s struggle with terrorist allegations, her own fears, and her son’s fate that day.

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