Recalls Mira with a tremble in her voice, “I suddenly saw this frail old woman walking towards me. When she introduced herself asTeresa Ricci, wife of Gillo Pontecorvo who has made one of my ten favourite film of all timeThe Battle Of Algiers, I froze. Before I could tell her how much her husband’s movie meant to me and how deeply it had influenced the philosophy of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, she told me in her measured voice, ‘My husband’s soul lives in your film.’ I don’t think I’d ever receive a bigger compliment. This is what I’d like to take to my grave.” At the moment, Mira has taken a break in her home in New York. “I’ve been traveling and living out of suitcases. At least for now, I’ve a place to hang my bloody saree up and relax. My husband and family are with me. In fact in Venice, there were 55 of us accompanying our film. It felt so reassuring. Courtesy
Mira Nair’s gooseflesh moment at Venice film fest
