The Lunchbox (2013) an NFDC Film Hindi - 104 min - Drama | Romance "Dabba" (original title) Director: Ritesh Batra

The Dabbawalas (lunchbox service) of Mumbai deliver 170’000

lunchboxes every day and according to a Harvard study, only one in a

million ever goes astray. This movie is the story of that one mistaken

delivery which connects a young housewife Ila to a lonely widower

Saajan in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together

through notes in the lunchbox…. Both find a dream to hold on to. Ila

begins a fantastical affair with a mystery suitor, pouring her heart into

cooking meals for him. Saajan looks forward to lunch box deliveries from

a mystery woman every day. As the lunchbox goes back and forth, this

fantasy becomes so elaborate that it threatens to overwhelm their

reality. The film is the story of the life of which we dream versus the life we live in, and of

the courage it takes to turn out fantasies into reality. The film was released in February

2014 in the US and the New York Times described it as “A perfect balance of tact and

sentimentality”.

Cast: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Krrish 3 (2013) Hindi - 152 min - Action | Sci-Fi Director: Rakesh Roshan

Krishna aka Krrish is living a happy married life in India with his wife

Priya and scientist dad Rohit, while helping the masses with his

superpowers and struggling to keep a steady job. In another part of the

world, an evil handicapped man named Kaal has used his DNA to

generate a team of human-animal mutants, particularly the ruthless

chameleon mutant Kaya who can assume any form she wants. Kaya and

other mutants create havoc among the masses of India but are counter-

acted by Rohit's scientific genius. Now Kaya has to figure out how Rohit

managed to do that. Will she succeed? How will Krrish find Kaal and what

will their final face-off entail? This is what Krrish 3 is all about.

Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Hrithik Roshan, Amitabh Bachchan

My Brother... Nikhil (2005) Hindi - 120 min - Drama Director: Onir

The Kapoors have been living in Goa for several years, and are a

well-known and respected family. Navin Kapoor is now retired,

and lives with his wife, Anita, who has some Portugese blood, a

sportsman son, Nikhil, and daughter, Anamika (Anu). Navin is

thrilled to know that Nikhil has been selected for a sports

scholarship and will be representing Goa in a national swimming

championship. But his near-perfect life falls slowly apart as Nikhil

is suddenly asked by his coach to take a break and let some

fresh youngsters take over and eventually dismissed from the

team. The Kapoors learn with shock that Nikhil has AIDS after he

is arrested one day. Nikhil is kept in forced isolation since the law allowed the government

to isolate HIV positive people. Will the Kapoors be able to accept the challenge together as a

family or will they end up as embittered individuals who end up blaming each other?

Cast: Sanjay Suri, Juhi Chawla, Purab Kohli

Charulata (1964) Bengali - 117 min - Drama | Romance

Director: Satyajit Ray

Set in British India in the 19th century, the film revolves around Charulata,

the beautiful wife of a learned Calcutta intellectual. She sits at home alone

while her wealthy husband Bhupati runs his English language newspaper.

Upon recognizing her profound loneliness, Bhupati invites his brother-in-

law Umapada and wife Mandakini as house guests. Amal, his handsome

younger cousin also comes for a visit following his graduation from college.

Charu and Amal spend hours reminiscing over literature, poetry and the

arts while Bhupati works on his paper. For a short time everyone is

content. Then, a tragedy occurs. Umapada absconds with Bhupati's

savings, leaving the entrepreneur in terrible debt. But the betrayed man

soon realizes that something much more precious than his money is lost.

Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee

Dare to Dream (2013) an NFDC Film Hindi & Marathi - 110 min - Drama "Gangoobai" (original title) Director: Priya Krishnaswamy

Gangoobai, a childless, elderly widow, has lived her whole life in

the tiny colonial hill station of Matheran, near Mumbai. Mountain

range about 4 hours' drive from Mumbai. She works hard and has

very simple aspirations until one day she falls in love ---with a

designer sari. She follows her dream to the big city of Mumbai.

How does this affect her, how does she change the lives of people

she meets in Mumbai, does she achieve her dream….. Audience

review: “A simple story told so beautifully, you just wish the movie

wouldn't end”.

Cast: Sarita Joshi, Purab Kohli & Mita Vasisht

3 Idiots (2009) Hindi - 170 min - Comedy | Drama | Romance Director: Rajkumar Hirani

Farhan Qureshi and Raju Rastogi want to re-unite with their fellow

collegian, Rancchoddas "Rancho" Shyamaldas Chanchad. They

remember their student days ten years ago at the Imperial College

of Engineering, one of the best colleges in India. Farhan wants to

become a wildlife photographer, but is pursuing an engineering

degree to fulfil his father's wish, whereas Raju needs to improve his

family's financial situation, and Rancho studies for the pleasure of

building machines. Life at college was full of hilarious antics,

including many run-ins with the Dean Viru Sahastrabudhe (ViruS).

The search for Rancho takes his two friends to unexpected turns…

Cast: Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Boman Irani, Mona Singh

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011) Hindi - 153 min - Adventure | Comedy | Romance

Director: Zoya Akhtar

3 young men Kabir, Imran and Arjun leave for a 3 week road trip for

Kabir's extended bachelor party; a road trip where each one gets to do

the ultimate sport of his choice and the other 2 just have to do it with

him, whether they want to or not! And this makes them face their fears,

alter their perceptions, unravel their confidence, force them out of their

comfort zone and break out of the box. Ultimately it teaches them to

seize the day…

Cast: Katrina Kaif, Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar

The Good Road (2013) Gujrati - 92 min - Drama Director: Gyan Correa

Several stories are intertwined in the film with the center of the action

being a highway in the rural lands of Gujarat. The film is the first Gujarati

film ever to be selected to represent India at the Oscars. It unfolds over

the course of a day and cross-cuts between a boy who gets separated

from his parents, a truck driver and his cleaner who take in the boy, and a

young girl who seeks shelter at a wayside brothel. The three sets of

characters travel through the bleached landscape of the Rann of Kutch in

Gujarat, whose people are as taciturn as their surroundings are unsparing.

Cast: Ajay Gehi, Rinkle Karelia, Keval Katrodia

Like Stars on Earth (2007) Hindi - 162 min - Biography | Comedy | Drama "Taare Zameen Par" (original title) Director: Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with

wonders that no one else seems to appreciate; colors, fish, dogs

and kites are just not important in the world of adults, who are

much more interested in things like homework, marks and

neatness. And Ishaan just cannot seem to get anything right in

class. One day a new art teacher Nikumbh bursts onto the scene,

who breaks all the rules of how things are done by asking the

students to think, dream and imagine. They respond with

enthusiasm, all except Ishaan. Nikumbh soon realizes that Ishaan is

very unhappy, and sets out to discover why. Taare Zameen

Par gives you a peep into a child's mind and makes you think about

the need to understand, nurture and nourish.

Cast: Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tanay Chheda

Gandhi, My Father (2007) Hindi - 136 min - Biography | Drama | History

Director: Feroz Abbas Khan

The film paints the picture of the leaders’s intricate, complex and strained

relationship with son Harilal Gandhi. From the onset, the two had dreams in

opposite directions. Harilal wanted to study abroad and become a barrister

like his father, while Gandhi hoped that his son would join him and fight for

his ideals and causes. When he is not given the opportunity to study

abroad, he decides to abandon his father’s vision and leaves South Africa for

India where he joins his wife Gulab and kids. He goes back to school to earn

his diploma but fails three times in a row and ends in financial stress. Sick

of his failure, he turns to alcohol for solace and converts to Islam, only to

re-convert to a different sect of Hinduism. With political tension heating up,

the rift between Gandhi and his eldest son grows until it is beyond repair.

Story of a man who lived in the enormous shadow of his father, striving to

discover his own identity

Cast: Akshaye Khanna, Darshan Jariwala, Shefali Shetty

Liv & Ingmar (2012) Swedish & English - 89 min - Documentary

Director: Dheeraj Akolkar

This film by a young Indian filmmaker celebrates, for the first time in

the last 50 years, something sacred, something delicate, something

unrequited, unrealized, unspoken... Here, sitting in Ingmar Bergman's

house on Faro, Liv Ullmann herself tells the story. Passages from her

book 'Changing', Ingmar's love letters - seen here for the first time -

and many autobiographical sequences from their films become a part

of this film's canvas. In the process, this film becomes homage, a

salute... not only to two of the most important artists of our time, but

also to two friends, companions and soul mates...

Cast: Liv Ullmann, Ingmar Bergman, Samuel Fröler

Let the Scream Be Heard (2013) English - 58 min - Documentary Director: Dheeraj Akolkar

This film is an artistic investigation to discover and celebrate the secret behind

the universality and timelessness in the iconic Norwegian artist Edvard Munch's

creation spanning over 62 years and more than 40,000 works of art. It gains a

unique focus from being made by a young Indian director.

Stars: Edvard Munch, Ketil Bjørnstad, Marina Abramovic

Enemy of the People (1989) Bengali - 99 min - Drama "Ganashatru" (original title) Director: Satyajit Ray

The film is an adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen: Enemy of the People.

Dr. Ashoke Gupta is the head of the main hospital a small town in

Bengal. His younger brother, Nisith is the head of the committees running

the hospital and a temple, both built by a local Industrialist. The temple

is also a big tourist attraction. Dr. Gupta is convinced that the holy water

of the temple is contaminated due to faulty pipe-laying. It is causing an

epidemic in the town. He warns his brother Nisith. Nisith, the Industrialist

and other town officials reject the idea that holy water might be the

cause of the epidemic. They refuse to close the temple to carry out the

repairs. Dr. Gupta wants to write an article in the newspaper to warn

people, but giving-in to the pressure from the powerful people, the editor

refuses to publish it. Left with no alternative, Dr. Gupta organises a

public meeting that is also sabotaged and he is proclaimed an enemy of

the people.

Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey

Baadshah (1999) Hindi - 175 min - Action | Comedy | Musical "The Emperor" (original title) Directors: Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla

K. Jhunjhunwala would like to locate his missing/runaway

daughter, Seema Malhotra, so that he can get her married to Nitin

Dharampal. Prominent businessman, Mahindra, would like to

negotiate with the kidnappers of his daughter Sonu and secure her

release. And the Central Bureau of Investigation would like to

protect the life of Chief Minister Gayetri Bachchan under the

mission code-named "Maa", and officer in Charge is code-named

"Baadshah" – which also happens to be the name of a bumbling

Private Investigator, who has agreed to assist Jhunjhunwala and

Mahindra. He gets mistaken for the CBI Agent, ends up working

for the assassins, and must assassinate Gayetri or else…

Cast: Rakhee Gulzar, Shah Rukh Khan, Twinkle Khanna

Chalte Chalte (2003) Hindi - 167 min - Drama | Romance "While on the way" Director: Aziz Mirza

Raj and Priya come from two different strata of society. Raj owns a

small-time transport business and belongs to the economically middle

class section of society, Priya belongs to the affluent class and is on the

road to becoming a famous fashion designer. But when a chance

encounter brings them together, they are drawn towards each other but

Priya is already engaged to marry her childhood friend Sameer. Raj

follows her all the way to Greece to woo her. During the journey Priya

realizes that Raj is her true soulmate and decides to marry him. But

after a year of their marriage, the once-love struck couple begin to face

the harsh realities of marriage. Misunderstandings make Priya leave

their home. Will the story have a happy ending?

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Rani Mukerji, Jas Arora

Black (2005) Hindi - 122 min - Drama Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

The McNallys, an Anglo-Indian family consisting of Paul and his wife,

Catherine live in Simla. Both rejoice when Catherine gives birth to a

baby girl, Michelle, but their joy is short-lived when they are told

that Michellle cannot see nor hear. Michelle becomes increasingly

violent and volatile and Paul considers admitting Michelle in an

asylum. It is here that the alcoholic, eccentric Debraj Sahai enters

their lives. Under his guidance, Michelle blossoms and gives up her

violence. She even gets admitted in school with normal children but

is not able to graduate. The years pass by, and it is time for Debraj

to bid adieu. Twelve years later, at the age of 40, Michelle succeeds

in graduating and meets her teacher again…

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Shernaz Patel

Koi... Mil Gaya (2003) Hindi - 171 min - Drama | Fantasy | Romance "I found ...someone" Director: Rakesh Roshan

Scientist Sanjay Mehra devises a computer that is

capable of contacting aliens. His happiness is cut short

when the scientists scoff at him and refuse to believe his

claims. While returning home with his pregnant wife, he

glimpses an alien spaceship, and, in the resulting

confusion, crashes his car. His wife survives but their

unborn child suffers brain damage. Rohit Mehra grows up

with the thinking capacity of a child. He befriends the

town Mayor's daughter Nisha, which angers Nisha's suitor

Raj, a spoiled brat. One day, Rohit and Nisha find Rohit's

father's computer in his shed and follow the instructions to operate it and that very evening,

an alien spaceship comes to their town. When the police inspect the footprints, they

discover that one of the aliens has been left behind. Rohit and Nisha find the alien and see

their lives slide into virtual chaos...

Cast: Rekha, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta

The Big City (1963) Bengali - 122 min - Drama "Mahangar" (original title) Director: Satyajit Ray

Life in Calcutta in the early 1960's. Bhambal supports his wife Arati,

his parents, and two children. Money is tight, so Arati goes to work.

She's successful and enjoys it, but this untraditional step throws the

household into chaos: her in-laws initiate a "cold war" of silence and

disapproval. When Bhambal loses his job, her working is essential;

he loses self respect, and the gulf between them widens. Arati

questions whether to keep her daughter in school. At work, her

friendship with Edith, a Euro-Indian who smokes, swears, and uses

lipstick, brings Arati close to impertinence with her genial boss. Her

job is imperiled, she acts impulsively, and who will understand her

actions?

Cast: Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri

English Vinglish (2012) Hindi - 134 min - Comedy | Drama | Family Director: Gauri Shinde

The story of a quiet, sweet tempered housewife who endures

numerous small slights from her well educated husband and

daughter everyday because of her inability to speak and

understand English. She is resourceful and open-minded but

somehow these traits don't get noticed by them. Then one day on

a trip to visit her sister in Manhattan she decides to enroll in an

English Learners class and meets a host of new people who teach

her to value herself beyond the narrow perspective of her family.

Cast: Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Mehdi Nebbou

Yugant (1995) Bengali - 135 min - Drama "What the Sea Said" Director: Aparna Sen

Deepak and Anasuya are an estranged couple meeting after 18

months of separation, at a small fishing village where they had once

honeymooned. Deepak works as a Creative Director for a new

advertising agency in Calcutta, while Anasuya is in the final stages

of achieving her long cherished desire of building her own dance

academy at Bhubaneshwar. The second honeymoon is an attempt to

rediscover their lost relationship. Almost instinctively, they realize

that they have changed and yet, somewhere deep down, they are

the same. And then, a miracle occurs which makes them think about

the bareness of their conjugal life.

Cast: Anjan Dutt, Roopali Ganguly, Pallavi Chatterjee, Kunal Mitra.

Om Shanti Om (2007) Hindi - 162 min - Action | Comedy | Drama "Let there be peace" Director: Farah Khan

Om Prakash Makhija is a Junior Artiste in Bollywood, who is infatuated with

actress Shantipriya, and hopes to marry her someday. His hopes come to

reality when he rescues her from a fire but shortly thereafter he finds out that

she is married to a film producer, Mukesh Mehra, and is expecting his child. He

then watches in horror as Mukesh, after luring her in an abandoned studio, sets

it afire. Om attempts to rescue her in vain, and he too is killed. 30 years later,

Om is reborn as the only son of yesteryear Bollywood actor, Rajesh Kapoor,

and is himself an aspiring actor. His memories start to return when he meets

with his widowed mother and he decides to take revenge…

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal

Dil Jo Bhi Kahey... (2005) Hindi - 144 min - Romance "Whatever the heart may say…" Director: Romesh Sharma

During the British rule in India, several Indians were lured

by the British to travel to distant Mauritius for a better life

but actually, on reaching this island, the Indians were

enslaved, tortured and made to work like slaves as in the

"Coolie Ghat". After the British left India, the Indians in

Mauritius decided to continue to live there along with other

nationals from different countries. Amongst them is the

young man Jai, studying to be a chef who meets a beautiful

Swedish girl Sophie Besson, in stockholm and falls in love

with her. But her father Norman who used to be one of the

slave-masters in the olden days, considers Indians quite

inferior and does not approve of Jai. But Sophie is adamant

and refuses to change her mind about Jai, both plan to run

away together. But on the night they are to elope, he does not turn up…

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Revathy, Karan Sharma

Iqbal (2005) Hindi - 132 min - Drama Director: Nagesh Kukunoor

Iqbal tells the story of Iqbal, a deaf and mute boy, who dreams of

playing cricket for India. However, he is discouraged by his father who

thinks that Iqbal's daydreams are a waste of time. Instead, he wants

Iqbal to help him tend to the crops and become a farmer like him, which

would be a stable profession. Iqbal's sister, Khadija however, helps him

try out for a nearby academy run by Guruji, an influential former India

captain, who accepts him for his talent. However, when Iqbal competes

with a rich boy, Kamal, who is also the star of the academy, he is thrown

out by Guruji out of fear of Kamal's father, who bankrolls the academy.

Iqbal seeks help from the local drunkard, Mohit, who was once a great

cricketer and persuades him to be his coach. Will they succeed?

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Shreyas Talpade

Ship of Theseus (2012) English & Hindi - 140 min - Drama Director: Anand Gandhi

If the parts of a ship are replaced, bit-by-bit, is it still the same ship? A

celebrated experimental photographer struggles with the loss of her

intuitive genius as an unexpected aftermath of a physical change; an

intellectual monk confronting a complex ethical dilemma with a long

held ideology, has to choose between principle and death; and a young

stockbroker, following the trail of a stolen kidney, learns how intricate

morality could be. These disparate characters manifest philosophical

dilemmas in their personal lives, but their narratives converge to

reveal an even larger fabric of connections, meaning, beauty, existence

and death in a delicately poetic finale.

Cast: Aida Elkashef, Sohum Shah, Neeraj Kabi

It Never Dies (2012) Bengali - 140 min - Drama

"Na Hannyate" (Original title) Director: Riingo

Inspired by Zhang Ling's essay, The Great Tangshan Earthquake,

Riingo's latest offering, Na Hanaytte, is a poignant tale of a

woman, Jui, who is caught in a situation where she could save

only one of her kids and leave the other to die. As a mother, she

can never forgive herself for having to choose between her two

children Ratan and Shiuli. But life goes on... years go by... The

film is about relationships and how they gradually change in

times of crisis.

Cast: Roopa Ganguly, Sayani Dutta, Rahul, Priyanka Sarkar Chaiti Ghosal

Sada Kalo Abcha (2013) Bengali 112 min- Thriller | Drama

"White, Black & Grey" Director: Riingo

On a holiday with his wife, a super model, Samrat, a writer meets with an

accident and wakes up after three days in a hospital with his past in a blur to

find an inspector questioning his identity. The only things he remembers are

his name, his wife’s name and the hotel they are staying at.

The Inspector takes him to his wife who refuses to recognise him and

introduces her real husband. Samrat is stunned and starts questioning

himself, torn between the shaky present and his foggy past...

Cast: Samrat Chakraborty, Sayani Datta, Rana Mitra, Aparajita Ghosh,

Chirodeep Mitra, Pratik Roy

Ray: The Mind Is The Story (2014) Bengali - 112 min – Psychological Drama Director: Riingo

A renowned writer of romantic novels is asked to write a murder

mystery by his publisher. Being a writer from his deeds, his novels have

always been stories from his real life romantic liaisons and it begins to

get difficult to write the plot as he has never witnessed murder in his

lifetime. On vacation to a remote village in Arunachal Pradesh he meets

a couple who take the initiative to inspire his writing pursuits. They

strangely resemble characters from the detective fictions of Satyajit Ray

Feluda series and they play a game of entrapment to lure our

protagonist into the cunning web of lies, deceit and murder. Based on

the legendary Satyajit Ray and his detective series Feluda, Ray indulges

in the fear factor of fiction turning true. It is now just a matter of time

when the final scene will be written and maybe the author himself will

become the fiction.

Cast: Samrat Chakrabarti, Sayani Dutta

Ghuri (2014) (Premier) Bengali - 137 min - Action | Drama "The Kite" (original title) Director: Riingo

A tribute to the award winning novel The Kite

Runner by Khalid Hussaini, Ghuri is a film on the

virtues and vices of adolescence and the web of

fears and fantasies that surround every child in

those early years. Inseparable as friends are

Sunny and Sikander till an act of cowardice

betrays the trust between them. Years later Sunny

has to confront the ghosts from the past as he

undertakes a journey into the realms of danger and deceit to make amends for a friend he

once let down. An emotional drama of endurance and sacrifice that man takes to

reincarnate faith and honor for a gift called friendship... and thereby complete the circle of

redemption.

Cast: Arindoi Bagchi, Rohit Bhattacharya, Kaushik Chakraborty

Qissa (2013) An NFDC Film Punjabi - 109 minutes - Drama

"In Two Minds" Director: Anup Singh

The story revolves around how Umber Khan is

obsessed with having a son to continue his clan's

near-vanquished bloodline. His disappointment in

seeing his wife deliver a fourth daughter drives him

to extreme measures, as he turns to bringing her up

as male. All this turns the girl, Kanwar into a torn

and troubled being: confused and repressed, she

takes up a chauvinist veneer, which eventually leads

her into a bind, as she is forced to marry Neeli, a

girl she's been aggressively flirting with… What next?

Cast: Irrfan Khan, Tillotama Shome, Rasika Dugal

Duvidha (1973) An NFDC Film Hindi - 82 minutes - Drama

"The Tale of a Lonely Ghost" Director: Mani Kaul

Based upon a Rajasthani folk tale, the story is simple: a lonely ghost falls

deeply in love with a beautiful – but recently married – woman; after her

husband departs home for business trading, the ghost proceeds to steal the

identity of the husband in order to possess the woman’s love. Soon the wife

finds herself pregnant. The husband returns and a dilemma arises… The

film moves on two planes - inside-outside' dark-light' a structure that exists

in the folk tales and myths the world over…

Cast: Ravi Menon, Raisa Padamsee

Firaaq (2005) Hindi - 112 min - Drama

Director: Nandita Das

In a nuanced, moving exploration of life and loss, the film traces the

lives of a handful of characters struggling to come to terms with the

tragedy of the 2002 riots in Gujarat. Old 'ustaad' Khan Saheb and his

faithful companion Karim wonder if the sound of a 'raag' will ever

reverberate again in their house. Sanjay is an unapologetic defender of

the Hindu right while his wife Aarati is traumatized because she did not

help a Muslim woman being chased by a mob. Half Muslim-half Hindu

Sameer Shaikh plans to flee to Delhi, where he thinks his mixed

parentage won't cause him as much grief. And a little child wanders

through the dark night, looking for his lost father: the rest of his family

was slain during the riots.

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Raghubir Yadav, Paresh Rawal, Deepti Naval, Tisca Chopra,

Sanjay Suri

Mala Aai Vhaychay (2011) Marathi - 82 minutes - Drama

"I Want to be a Mother" Director: Samruoddhi Porey

The story deals with growing surrogacy practices in India where

women are used as surrogates by foreigners. The film is an

emotional drama telling story of one such surrogate mother who

bears a foreigner's child… The first Indian film on this important

theme Mary is a model from a foreign comes to India to

commission a baby but when the Doctor says that the child maybe

handicapped, she leaves after arranging for the child to be put in

an orphanage. All these happenings disturb Yashoda, the surrogate

mother and she decides to keep the child even if it is born

handicapped. By the grace of God, Yashoda gives birth to a lovely,

healthy and normal child with blue eyes and Golden hair… He

grows up in Yashoda’s hut and gets all the love and affection from

her. The real drama still awaits. What if Mary comes back? Who does the child belong to by

law?

Fire (1996) Hindi - 110 min - Drama Director: Deepa Mehta

Sita, newly married, does not succeed in evoking any emotion from her

husband Jatin. They live in a typical traditional Indian joint family

arrangement with his older brother Ashok, his sister-in-law Radha, his

invalid mother (Biji) and the family servant Mundu and Sita begins to feel

stifled. She learns that Radha too has many similar problems and is very

sad. Radha and Sita go through the motions oscillating between their

desires and disappointments. Radha, the older woman, remains bound by

tradition and subdued into silence while Sita refuses to accept misfortune

and wishes to break free. Shunned by their husbands, provoked by their

unfulfilled longings, Radha and Sita seek solace in each other and become

lovers and end up having to face fire...

Cast: Nandita Das Shabana Azmi