Word: shabana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fire stars Nandita Das as Sita, the wide-eyed but feisty new wife of Jatin (Jaaved Jaaferi), who, goaded into the marriage by his older brother Ashok (Kulbushan Kharbanda), continues to see his Chinese girlfriend by night. Sita becomes depressed and grows increasingly closer to Radha (played by Shabana Azmi, one of India's most accomplished actresses), Ashok's wife, who has taken a vow of celibacy with her husband to justify her inability to have children. Denied the passion they need by the males in their lives, the two wives begin an affair that threatens to tear the family...
...Ashram near Calcutta. Frustrated by his career in America, he yearns to "find himself." Instead he finds himself stranded in Calcutta, robbed of his money and passport, where he accidentally encounters Hazari, a poor Indian farmer masterfully played by Om Puri. Hazari has a family--a wife, Kamla (Shabana Azmi), two sons and a daughter. Hazari pulls a rickshaw for a living, under the auspices of the Landlord--known as the Godfather to the tenants--and his merciless son, Ashok. The story unravels as Max begins to help out at a free clinic in the slum that Hazari lives...