Word: deepa
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...Movies from India?whether Satyajit Ray's art classics or Bollywood's dizzy musicals?have often centered on children's quest for self-expression within the family hierarchy. Bollywood Hollywood, an Indian-Canadian musical comedy from controversial director Deepa Mehta?she made this film after her Fire-Earth-Water trilogy was shut down due to protests and threats on her life?is at heart a story about young people making their parents happy while finding some joy on their...
...best, "Chutney Popcorn" has some of the sensuality and comic smarts of Mira Nair's 1991 movie "Mississippi Masala?" and, evoking Deepa Mehta's 1996 drama? "Fire," it offers up an intelligent look at lesbian life and the Indian community. Although "Chutney Popcorn?" in its brief 92-minute running time, deals with as many issues as a week of afternoon talk shows - lesbianism, multiculturalism, having-a-babyism - it does so not to spark a debate about those topics, but to explore them from a deeply personal standpoint. This film isn't looking to argue, it's looking to chat...