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At the insistence of Ashok and their mother, Biji, agrees to marry the beautiful Sita in an arranged marriage, although he is actually in love with Julie, a Chinese-Indian…
Fire is a bold and groundbreaking film that provokes reflection on love, freedom, and the courage to defy societal norms. In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own ...
Sita (Nandita Das) and Radha (Shabana Azmi) are two Indian women stuck in loveless marriages. While Sita is trapped in an arranged relationship with her cruel and unfaithful husband, Jatin (Jaaved ...
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Synopsis. Beneath the surface lies a burning secret. In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha’s life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage. Remove Ads.
‘Fire’, Deepa Mehta’s 1996 directorial, opens with a young girl Radha being told a story as she sits in a lush field: “A long time ago, there were people living high up in the mountains. They had never seen the sea… And this made them feel very sad. Then an old woman in the village said “Don’t be sad. What you can’t see, you can see. You just have to see without looking ...
Fire is a 1996 Indo-Canadian erotic romantic drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. It is the first installment of Mehta's Elements trilogy; it is succeeded by Earth and Water. The film is loosely based on Ismat Chughtai's 1942 story, "Lihaaf". Fire is one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to explicitly show homosexual relations, and the ...
The Elements trilogy of films by Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta deals with controversial issues of social reform on the Indian subcontinent. Fire, the first release in 1996, dealt with issues of arranged marriage and homosexuality in the patriarchal culture of India. [1] Earth, released in 1998, dealt with the religious strife associated ...
