- HD 1080
- Runtime: 118m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Director: Mira Nair
- Stars: Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore, Charles S. Dutton
- keywords: immigrant, southern usa, mississippi river, uganda, interracial relationship, interracial romance, racism, racial prejudice, woman director, idi amin, forced migration, mississippi, romantic
- Production_studio: Cinecom Pictures, Mirabai Films, Film4 Productions, The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- Slogan: Passion. Tradition. Mix it up.
- providers: Max, Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel
- The Mississippi Masala is featured in the top rankings of 1991
- #39 in Top Romance Movies of 1991
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.