• Fire (1997)

    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 Jaafei), Radha is married to his brother, Ashok (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), a religious zealot who believes in suppressing desire. As the two women recognize their similar situations, they grow closer, and their relationship becomes far more involved than either of them could have anticipated.

Fire

Release Date: August 22nd, 1997

DVD Release Date: June 27th, 2000

Not Yet Rated |1 hr 44 min

Plot Summary

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 Jaafei), Radha is married to his brother, Ashok (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), a religious zealot who believes in suppressing desire. As the two women recognize their similar situations, they grow closer, and their relationship becomes far more involved than either of them could have anticipated.

Cast: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Jaaved Jaafei, Ranjit Chowdhry, Kushal Rehki, Karishma Jhalani, Ramanjeet Kaur

Director: Deepa Mehta

Genres: Drama

Keywords: Mother , Husband , 1990s , Transformation , Emotional , Wife , Forbidden love , Passionate

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