Year			2006
Country			India / U.S.A.
Genre			Romantic comedy
Rating			14A
Parents			Offensive language, nudity, sexual content
Length			2:02
Director			Mira Nair
Writer			Sooni Taraporevala Jhumpa Lahiri
Company			Fox Searchlight Pictures
Starring			Tabu Irfan Khan Kal Penn Zuleikha Robinson Jacinda Barrett Benjamin Bauman Show more... Tabu Irfan Khan Kal Penn Zuleikha Robinson Jacinda Barrett Benjamin Bauman Sudipta Bhawmik Sibani Biswas Jessica Blank Sabyasachi Chakravarthy Supriya Choudhury Marcus Collins Gary Cowling Rupak Ginn Josh Grisetti Jagannath Guha Ruma Guha Thakurta Glenne Headly Maximiliano Hernández Jhumpa Lahiri Dhruv Mookerji Gargi Mukherjee Sahira Nair B.C. Parekh Rose Pasquale Allison Lee Ritter Sebastian Roché Justin Rosini Tamal Sengupta Payal Sethi Tanusree Shankar Brooke Smith Bobby Steggert Baylen Thomas Jo Yang Aaron Yoo
Links			Official Web Site Trailer

"The Namesake" is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima (Irfan Khan, Tabu) long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol (Kal Penn) is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage. Even Gogol's name represents the family's journey into the unknown.