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...family's glass company before switching his sights to food. Riboud ran Danone, which now has $12.7 billion in sales, until late in his 70s when he handed control to his son Franck. DIED. KAIFI AZMI, 87, award-winning Urdu poet, lyricist and father of Indian actress Shabana Azmi; in Bombay. A student of the progressive school of poetry, Azmi's writings often mirrored the socio-political scene in India where he was an advocate for a socialist society. DIED. YEVGENY SVETLANOV, 73, Russian conductor who led Russia's State Symphony Orchestra for more than three decades; in Moscow. Svetlanov...
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...
...sitting on a verandah above the Ganges a half-century ago, waiting for the subcontinental jewel to fall out of the imperial crown. But now Madame has taken on Manek (Navin Chowdhry), a gifted Indian lad, as her prize pupil. She will wage war with his beautiful mother (Shabana Azmi) over his time and loyalty. She will goad Manek to greatness and lose a bit of her heart...
...stars, like Shashi Kapoor, classical dancer Gopi Krishna and lovely Shabana Azmi, 24, do very well working hard at their trade. Most days Shashi, for instance, does two eight-hour acting stints on different Bombay lots, often for his brother Raj's production company. On others, he'll hop a plane for Srinagar for a day's shooting in Kashmir, or roar off in his white Mercedes to Pune (formerly Poona) for a locationer. Then he will rush back to Bombay to read the script for Last Train to Pakistan, his next starring vehicle, and perhaps consider...