Director: Mira Nair; Writer: Sooni Taraporevala, Jhumpa Lahiri; Producer: Lydia Dean Pilcher, Lori Keith Douglas, Anadil Hossain, Yukie Kito, Yasushi Kotani, Mira Nair, Ronnie Screwvala, Zarina Screwvala, Taizo Son, Dinaz Stafford; Cinematographer: Frederick Elmes; Editor: Allyson C. Johnson; Cast: Kal Penn, Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Jacinda Barrett, Zuleikha Robinson, Brooke Smith, Sahira Nair, Jagannath Guha, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Sandip Deb, Sukanya, Tanushree Shankar, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Tamal Ray Chowdhury, Dhruv Mookerji, Supriya Choudhury, Stuart Rudin, Heather MacRae, Sumitra, Kanti, Michael Countryman, Kousik Bhowal, Rupak Ginn, Soham Chatterjee, Gargi Mukherjee, Pallavi Shah, Jhumpa Lahiri, Noor Lahiri Vourvoulias, Linus Roache, Josh Grisetti, Justin Rosini, Dan McCabe, Bobby Steggert, B.C. Parikh, Sibani Biswas, Lakhan Das, Kharaj Mukherjee, Glenne Headly, Daniel Gerroll, Amy Wright, Christie Moreau, Jo Yang, Krishna Dikshit, Kartik Das, Gary Cowling, Sudipta Bhawmik, Gretchen Egolf, Baylen Thomas, Jeb Brown, Jessica Blank, Mia Yoo, Benjamin Bauman, Sebastian Roché, Maximiliano Hernández, Partha Chatterjee, Mitali Bhawmik, Marcus Collins, Sandi DeGeorge, Aaron Yoo
Summary: While traveling by train to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur, Calcutta born, Bengali-speaking Ashoke Ganguli meets with fellow-traveler, Ghosh, who impresses upon him to travel, while Ashoke is deep into a book authored by Nicholai Gogol. The train meets with an accident, and after recuperating, Ashoke re-locates to America, settles down, returns home in 1977 to get married to aspiring singer, Ashima, and returns home to New York. Shortly thereafter they become parents of a boy, who they initially name Gogol, and a few years later both give birth to Sonia. The family then buy their own house in the suburbs and travel to India for the first time after their marriage. The second time they travel to India is when Gogol and Sonia are in their late teens, and after a memorable visit to Kolkata and then to the Taj Mahal, they return home. Gogol falls in love with Maxine Ratliff and moves in with her family, while Ashoke spends time traveling, and Sonia moves to California, leaving Ashima all her by herself. The Ganguli family will be destined to travel to India again soon - this time under very different circumstances - and after all have endured life-changing events.
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