The Namesake Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 122 mins
- Year produced:
- 2006
- Director:
- Mira Nair
- Cast:
- Irfan Khan
- Jagannath Guha
- Tabu
When Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli leave their home in the Indian city of Caluctta to start a new life in New York in the late 1970s, they realise that there are going to be many cultural differences to get used to. But the most difficult adjustments come with the growing-up of their son - a quiet boy given the unusual name of Gogol after his father’s favourite author, the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. For as he becomes a young man, Gogol grows ever more distanced from his parents – not through anger, but simply because having been born and raised in the US, he is, at least in part, not Indian, but American. A thoughtful and handsomely-told tale, adapted from an acclaimed novel by writer Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Fascinating facts
Actress Tabu admitted that in all the years she had lived in India, she had never seen the Taj Mahal. The scene in the movie where the family goes to see the Taj Mahal was her first time seeing famous tomb.
Many of the “New York” scenes that take place indoors in The Namesake were actually filmed in Calcutta in order to save money.