* Written and directed by way of Deepa Mehta * New Yorker Video When Fire premiered in India.

* Written and directed by way of Deepa Mehta * New Yorker Video

When Fire premiered in India, riots broke out; Hindu tradition abhors the idea of woman--woman be fond of But tradition be damned; filmmaker Deepa Mehta weaves an entrancing lesbian regard with affection story amid the urban grit of life in recent New Delhi. Radha (Shabana Azmi) and Sita (Nandita Das) are sisters-in-law caught in frosty marriages. As the women gradually discover a just discovered love, they learn--as do we--that Fire waste aways (Anne Stockwell)

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