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.
Mississippi Masala has generally received positive reviews.
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Review of Mississippi Masala (1991)
Review of Mississippi Masala (1991)
Review of Mississippi Masala (1991)
By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 Jan 2000
Review of Mississippi Masala (1991)
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Review of Mississippi Masala (1991)
Review of Mississippi Masala (1991)
Review of Mississippi Masala (1991)
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Review of Mississippi Masala (1991)
Review of Mississippi Masala (1991)
Review of Mississippi Masala (1991)
Review of Mississippi Masala (1991)
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Mississippi Masala was released in 1991 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 79 reviews, giving Mississippi Masala (1991) an average rating of 69%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 74%.
With a score of 69%, Mississippi Masala is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1991, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1991 with similar scores include films like Frankie and Johnny, L.A. Story and The Prince of Tides.
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