While the acting in Mississippi Masala was not the best, even with Denzel Washington, the movie itself had some nice messages about interracial relationships and the feelings of displacement of being forced from your home. The female protagonist, Mina, is a young Indian woman raised all over the world from her birth place of Uganda to being raised in England, then living in Mississippi, USA. Her father, Jay, was also born in Uganda and lived there his whole life. A large point in the film is the idea of home and for Jay, who has presumably never been to India, Uganda is his home even though his family stems from India. The theme of home in the film shows how a person’s definition of home is different depending on a person’s upbringing and how home isn’t always a physical place, it can be a person.