Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair, who carved a niche for herself in Hollywood, is hoping to give American audience a glimpse of Indian culture through a comedy series she is developing with Carsey-Werner-Mandabach (CWM) for ABC television.Nair, who is planning to develop her comedy Monsoon Wedding into broadway musical, has signed with CWM to develop an untitled project revolving around an upper-middle-class Punjabi family that runs a chain of motels in New Jersey. She will be the executive producer of the project.One of the central themes of the show will be the clash of cultures between the parents, who relocated from India about 20 years back, and their Americanised children — an 11-year-old son and a college-going daughter, it said.‘‘It’s a very affectionate story about a family. It’s about people who come from the oldest culture in the world and now find themselves living in the newest culture in the world,’’ Nair said.‘‘There are wonderful, funny and poignant stories to tell of having one’s soul belong to one place while the body is in another. And of course, the kids are completely imbued with American culture,’’ she added.CWM chief Marcy Carsey said she and her partners went out of their way to court Nair for a deal after being impressed with how she mimed the humour of family life in Monsoon Wedding.Apart from the ABC project, Nair is preparing to begin shooting early next year in London on the Reese Witherspoon starrer Vanity Fair and is also directing HBO’s adaptation of Tony Kushner’s Homebody
