Come Tuesday the Sidewalk Cafe will be screening a new film based on the book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri and produced by Mira Nair, which tells the story of young Bengali immigrants to the US and the struggles they face as they adapt to a life they do not know .
The Namesake maps the lives of the Ganguli family –Ashoke, Ashima, Gogol and Sonia. Living in America, Ashoke and Ashima haven’t been transformed into Americans. The story begins as Ashoke and Ashima leave Calcutta, India and settle in Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their son, Gogol, on the other hand, is growing up in America, stumbling along a first-generation path strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. The Namesake is a family portrait that reveals individual lives, which separate and then merge as they are carried towards their destinies.
Admission is free and the film starts at 7pm.