Inspirational Movie Series - The Namesake March 14, 2009

The Namesake
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Kal Penn, Irrfan Khan
Runtime: 122 minutes
Year: 2006
Award: Love is Folly International Film Festival - Golden Aphrodite

The Namesake maps the lives of the Ganguli family. Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli are arranged to be married by their families in Calcutta. A few days after the wedding, immigrate to America. Their son Gogol, growing up in America, stumbling along a first-generation path, he becomes a bright American boy, goes to Yale, has pretty girlfriends, becomes a successful architect. Gogol discards his unremarkable Indian lifestyle and adopts the American instead, but he can still find no peace. After hearing of his father’s death, he is finally able to appreciate the little details of his father's life and his own upbringing, but still is torn by conflict…

Official Website: http://lifesurfing.org/movies.html#series02