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Stephanie Dejoode
The Namesake is a 2006 English-language drama film directed by Mira Nair and written by Sooni Taraporevala based on the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It stars Kal Penn, Tabu, Irrfan Khan and Sahira Nair. The film was produced by Indian, American and Japanese studios.[4] The film was released in the United States on 9 March 2007, following screenings at film festivals in Toronto and New York City. The Namesake received positive reviews from American critics.[5]
The Namesake depicts the struggles of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli, first-generation immigrants from the state of West Bengal to the United States, and their American-born children Gogol and Sonia. The film takes place primarily in Kolkata, New York City, and suburbs of New York City.
The story begins as Ashoke and Ashima leave Calcutta and settle in New York City. Through a series of miscues, their son's nickname, Gogol (named after Russian author Nikolai Gogol), becomes his official birth name, an event which will shape many aspects of his life. The story chronicles Gogol's cross-cultural experiences[6] and his exploration of his Bengali heritage, as the story primarily shifts between the United States and Kolkata.
Gogol becomes a lazy, pot-smoking teenager who is indifferent to his cultural background. He resents many of the customs and traditions his family upholds and doesn't understand his parents. After an eight month long trip to India before starting college at Yale, Gogol starts opening up to his culture and becomes more accepting of it.
Shortly after his eighteenth birthday, much to his parents' annoyance, Gogol legally changes his name to "Nikhil", (the name he had supposedly refused to be addressed by when he was in kindergarten). In college, Gogol uses his "good name" Nikhil (later shortened to Nick). He works as an architect and dates Maxine, a white American woman from a wealthy background, who is clueless about their cultural differences. Gogol introduces her to his parents, who struggle to understand his modern, American perspectives on dating, marriage and love. They are hesitant and guarded when meeting her. Gogol gets along with Maxine's family and feels closer to them than he does his own family.
Before he goes to Ohio for a teaching apprenticeship, Ashoke tells Gogol the story of a nearly fatal train accident that he had suffered years ago back in India and how he came up with his name. Shortly after, while Gogol is on vacation with Maxine's family, Ashoke dies. Grieving, Gogol tries to be more like what he thinks his parents want him to be and begins following cultural customs more closely. He grows distant from Maxine and eventually breaks up with her.
Gogol rekindles a friendship with Moushumi, the daughter of family friends. They begin dating and soon after get married. However, the marriage is short-lived as Moushumi, bored with being a wife, starts having an affair with an old boyfriend from Paris. Gogol divorces her, while Ashima blames herself for pressuring Gogol to marry a fellow Bengali. Gogol returns home to help Ashima pack the house when he finds the book (a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol) which Ashoke had gifted him on his fourteenth birthday. Searching for comfort, and accepting his new life alone, Gogol finally reads the stories written by his namesake on the train home.
As well as depicting Gogol/Nikhil's experiences, the film describes the courtship and marriage of Ashima and Ashoke, and the effect on the family from Ashoke's early death from a massive heart attack. Through experiencing his father's funeral rites on the banks of the Ganges, Gogol begins to appreciate Indian culture. Ashima's decision to move on with her life, selling the suburban family home and returning to Calcutta for part of each year, unifies and ends the story.
Initially Rani Mukerji was considered for the principal lead, but due to scheduling conflicts with Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, the role then went to Tabu. Kal Penn was recommended for the movie by John Cho and strongly requested by Nair's son, who was a fan of Penn in Harold and Kumar.[7][8]
The soundtrack has varied music: Indian, Anglo-Indian (by Nitin Sawhney, influenced by Ravi Shankar's music for Pather Panchali),[9] and a French piece. One British Indian electronica piece is State of Bengal's "IC408." The ringtone from Moushumi's mobile phone is the song "Riviera Rendezvous" by Ursula 1000 from the album Kinda' Kinky; this is the same song that is played when Gogol and Moushumi first sleep together. The Indian classical pieces (performed on screen by Tabu) were sung by Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik, a New Jersey-based musician.
The film received favorable reviews from critics. As of 23 February 2009, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 86% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 126 reviews.[5] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 82 out of 100, based on 33 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[10]
My niece was born with a shock of dark hair and a robust appetite, my own two trademark traits. Still, when my sister Ruth and her husband, Peter, named this new child Elizabeth Frances only her surname differs from mine I was astonished.
As I teared up, Ruth had added quickly, as though attempting to avert a surfeit of sentiment, "The middle name's for Dad, of course, but with the feminine spelling. As for the first name, we just really like it."
Perhaps their choice really was based on an uncomplicated fondness for "Elizabeth," with a dollop of de facto pleasure derived from the coincidence involved. Even so, later that night, I couldn't resist mentally preening a bit. I've always liked my name, myself. And maybe I've given them good reason to like it, too, having consistently doted on my kid sister.
The reasons for naming a child are often too complex, and too personal, to warrant the sort of analysis I tried to apply. Yet that eternal, childlike question, why, niggled at my curiosity as much as at my ego.
I chided myself for making too much of it. At the same time, sharing my name with a beloved child seemed to imply a kind of responsibility as a role model, for starters, one who upholds important, if intangible, family mores.
In our ever-changing naming culture, boys are often named after their fathers, though less frequently these days. When they are, we don't ponder what this tradition means. We already know, or we think we do, even if we don't articulate the reasons in so many words.
As a custom, naming a child after an aunt or uncle isn't quite so cut and dried. Nonetheless, it seems to contain the expectation of a special relationship. Just how special, and in what ways, differs in each case.
Once I met Lizzie, I stopped pondering the reasons behind her name. She was simply a marvelous 10-day-old person in her own right, and explanations were beside the point. Of course she had been named "after" me! if only in the sense that I was born first, by a comfortable margin.
That surprising, singular word, "namesake," sent me straight to my dictionary. The first definition read, "a person named after another." The second was "a person having the same name as another." Which means that not only is Lizzie my namesake; I'm her namesake, too.
That suggests a reciprocal relationship, I've decided. Some day, Lizzie may wonder, as I have, what sharing our name signifies. By then, the answers may be so richly apparent to me that she need only ask.
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My mom was walking by at this moment. She used to listen in every now and then. After all, she had a daughter who would talk to herself for hours at a time. When she heard this exchange, she decided it was time that I learn about my namesake, Aisha (RA), the wife of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Our community is stuck. It is stuck on patriarchal interpretations of our beautiful faith that are rooted in cultural practices and norms. I, for one, am not willing to let these people tell my story.
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Every year, we search for Texas A&M faculty, staff, and alumni that exemplify the Aggie spirit by upholding the core values and demonstrate the meaning of being part of the Aggie family. Aggie Transition Camps would like to know about these outstanding individuals so that, if chosen, our organization can offer them an honorary namesake role in our summer extended orientation program, T-Camp (short for Transition Camp).
We are looking for individuals who not only excel as an Aggie but are willing to attend and participate in camp events in early August. Please take these qualities into consideration when you are brainstorming nominees and completing their nominations. If the nominee was once a part of Aggie Transition Camps, they must be a former member for at least three years before they can be considered to be a namesake.
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