Mira Nair reveals name of the actress in Namesake

After months of speculation by all sections of the media about the cast of Mira Nairs screen adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiris The Namesake’, it will be Jacinda Barrett and not Kate Hudson playing Maxine, the protagonists American girlfriend.

Besides Hudson, names of Abhishek Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee also cropped up as being part of the cast.

One of People magazine’s 50 beautiful people, Barrett, a closet lesbian in Bridget Jones II, will star in the film with Irrfan Khan, Tabu and Kal Penn.