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| FIRE | Director: |  Deepa Mehta |
| | | Year Released: | 1996 | Jan's Rating: Rich's Rating: | 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 | Key Performances: | Shabana Azmi
Ranjit Chowdhry
Nandita Das
Javed Jaffrey
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
| | Movie Haiku: | New bride (Das) enters household already containing husband’s aged mother, elder brother & wife (Kharbanda+Azmi), & longtime servant (Chowdhry). Both arranged marriages are fragile, & the sisters-in-law turn to each other for ever-deepening, eventually-sexual companionship. Closely-observed exploration of "ordinary" middle-class Indian women confronting tension between traditional expectations & contemporary options. |
ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM: | Women filmmakers? | No | Jewish content? | No | Haiku Posted: | 2006 | |
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