November 5, 2008, - Film director Mira Nair and author Suketu Mehta will discuss their work and their perspectives on contemporary Bombay and New York City, in a special program presented in collaboration between Museum of the Moving Image and the Mahindra Indo-American Film Festival. The event, Bombay/NY: An Evening with Mira Nair and Suketu Mehta, will take place on Friday, November 7, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. at The Times Center in Manhattan. The evening will include a conversation moderated by the Museum’s Chief Curator David Schwartz, a screening of Nair’s short film Migration, and a reading by Mehta.

Modern Bombay, home to twenty million, is one of the world’s most vibrant urban centers. Its official name is Mumbai, but as author Suketu Mehta writes, the city has "multiple aliases." Bombay, and its relationship to New York, will be the focus of the evening. Mira Nair’s acclaimed films include The Namesake, Monsoon Wedding, and Salaam Bombay! Mehta, who was born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York, is the author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. The two are collaborating on several film projects. Nair’s short film Migration (2007, 18 mins.), starring Sameera Reddy and Irrfan Khan, looks at AIDS as a class leveler in modern society by following its transmission through interweaving stories linking urban and rural India. Mehta will read from Maximum City.

The program is part of the Mahindra Indo-American Film Festival, November 5-9, presented by the Indo-American Arts Council. The festival features New York and US premieres of independent Indian and diaspora films, panel discussions, and special events. For more information and a full schedule, visit http://www.iaac.us.

For ticket information, visit http://movingimage.us or call 718.784.4520.