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...Reena Pabari, a spokeswoman for International SOS, said in an interview from London Saturday that the group is “working with clients on the ground” and that it is employing a “team of specialists” in the region...
...cool and produced so few melodies as Sonic Youth. It's not that these New Yorkers are incapable--they're just obstreperous, which makes the arrival of their first great rock album such a shock. They haven't rid themselves of their beloved guitar fuzz, but on songs like Reena and the sublime Jams Runs Free, the noise takes a backseat to focused songcraft and real, live hummable riffs. To top it off, Kim Gordon has emerged from her decade-long Nico-soundalike contest and is enunciating again. Calling it a career best would only make them angry...
...movie's main focus is Reena (played by director/co-screenwriter Nisha Ganatra), a young Indian-American lesbian who works as a photographer and a henna tattoo artist. Both Reena and her sister Sarita (Sakina Jaffrey) are struggling to live their lives independently of their often-intrusive mother Meenu; the situation becomes even more complex when Sarita decides she wants to have a baby...
...movie may not be constructed of Oscar-night clips, but there are a number of engaging performances: Jill Hennessy ("Law & Order") plays Reena's girlfriend Lisa with sweetly nuanced exasperation; also, both the Jeffreys (who are a mother-daughter pair in real life) bring emotional depth to their comic performances. The only actor who doesn't quite come through is Ganatra. She's clearly a good writer and a promising director. But she should take a few lessons from director/actor Spike Lee: when he appeared in "Malcolm X," he had the good sense not to cast himself as Malcolm...
...Nonetheless, "Chutney Popcorn" is a film well worth seeing. During the course of the picture, there's a scene in which Reena and Lisa adorn each other with henna tattoos before making love. It's a sequence that could have be played for pure titillation - and probably guaranteed the film a place among the lesbian-obsessed soft-focus/softcore late-night offerings on Showtime, Cinemax and HBO. Instead, the scene is sweet, a bit humorous, and more about intimacy than carnality. "Chutney Popcorn" is a low-budget movie that never goes for cheap thrills...