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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...
Earth, the second film in director Deepa Mehta's prospective trilogy Fire, Earth and Water, tells the tragic story of the 1947 partition of India as witnessed by Lenny Sethna (Maia Sethna), an 8 year-old Parsee girl. Based on Bapsi Sidwha's novel Cracking India, Earth explores the controversial British partition of India into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, which caused inter-religious massacres by the same Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims who had lived together peacefully for many years. Lahore, the city in which Lenny lives, was the site of a particularly bloody confrontation reflective of the widespread atrocities...
...incomprehensible stories that some movie snobs claim to have special meaning, nor was there any of that militant male-bashing. More important, though, was the voyeuristic experience, as the viewer peeked into the lives and relationships of women in settings ranging from bloodshed in 1947 India (Earth, directed by Deepa Mehta) to the music scene of Los Angeles (Sugar Town, directed by Allison Anders...
...incomprehensible stories that some movie snobs claim to have special meaning, nor was there any of that militant male-bashing. More important, though, was the voyeuristic experience, as the viewer peeked into the lives and relationships of women in settings ranging from bloodshed in 1947 India (Earth, directed by Deepa Mehta)to the music scene of Los Angeles (Sugar Town,directed by Allison Anders...