ABSTRACT
In the wonderful Hollywood movie Mississippi Masala, director Mira Nair portrays an Indian-African family in Uganda. The film starts in 1972 when the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin expelled all the Asians from Uganda. The family spends a few years in England but then moves on to the USA. Here they live with Indian family members who run a chain of motels. The family eldest, Jay, is profoundly homesick. While in the USA, his main aim is to return home. Home is not India or the UK, but Kampala in Uganda. After attending a court proceeding on the disposition of his confiscated Ugandan house, Jay relinquishes his long-nurtured dream of returning to Uganda, the place he considered as home.
