Word: sita
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holiday is a celebration of the anniversary of the gods Lord Rama and the Goddess Sita's return home from India's southern tip after battling a demon, Kacholia said...
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...
...going to shoot you' after her film's premiere," recalled Mehta of Fire's opening in Trivandrum last spring. The Indian-Canadian director knew she was breaking taboos but had no idea how resistant her viewers would be. "In India, there is no word for the type of love Sita and Radha share," she explains, and the existence of homosexuality is mostly denied by conservatives. What bothers men most about the film, Mehta says, is not the homoerotic tendencies it unveils, but the empowerment it gives wives over their husbands-a shift in the traditional power structure that is viewed...