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The Namesake: for the most part, a failure to "concentrate on the things that matter"

What’s in a namesake? In the new film by Indian American director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Salaam Bombay), a drama centered on a young Indian man raised in the US and named for a famed Russian author provides the opportunity to explore what it means to live in and be torn between two different worlds.

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