Mira Nair wins TIFF Tribute award, says important to tell our own stories

TIL Desk Bollywood/ Mira Nair, two episodes of whose six-part television series “A Suitable Boy” will close the 45th Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, received the Jeff Skoll Award for Impact Media on Monday evening at a remotely conducted TIFF Tribute Awards ceremony.

The presentation of the award to Nair was initiated by Tabu, star of “A Suitable Boy” as well as the director’s critically acclaimed 2006 drama “The Namesake”.

The actor said: When Mira Nair was a kid, she asked herself, can art change the world? She has proven it can. And in doing so, the filmmaker has, Tabu added, set the very highest standards of cinema.