Watch Order
0 / 8 watchedThe essential Nair features in the order they were released.
About Mira Nair
Mira Nair (born 1957) is an Indian-American director whose films move between Mumbai, Uganda, New York and London. Her debut Salaam Bombay! (1988) earned an Oscar nomination, and Monsoon Wedding (2001) won the Golden Lion at Venice; later highlights include The Namesake (2006) and Queen of Katwe (2016).
Her features are standalone, so release order is the natural path. This list keeps to the key fiction films in sequence, with a short note on each. Television work like A Suitable Boy (2020) and her documentaries are left out to keep the focus on her cinema features.
Good to know
Nair remains active; her most recent feature is Queen of Katwe (2016), and her BBC series A Suitable Boy arrived in 2020. Reports in January 2026 say she is preparing Amri, a biopic of painter Amrita Sher-Gil, which has no release date yet. Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay! are the two essential starting points for newcomers.
