Denzel Washington's career was turning red hot in 1991 when, after winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar two years prior for "Glory" and setting the screen ablaze as a lothario jazz trumpeter in "Mo' Better Blues," he shifted gears and took a role in Mira Nair's ensemble romantic drama "Mississippi Masala." The low-budget film centers on the plight of a Ugandan Indian family that, along with many other Asians, have been expelled from the country by dictator Idi Amin. While the patriarch of the family, Jay (Roshan Seth), is determined to move back to the Ugandan capital city of Kampala one day, his daughter Mina (Sarita Choudhury) is happy in the U.S. But when she begins dating a Black carpet cleaner named Demetrius (Washington), Jay's mild discontent blows up into full-blown anger.

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