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Fire (1996) 7.1
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Metascore: 64/100
Reviews: 54 user | 35 critic | 14 from Metacritic.com Ashok runs a family business that sells takeout food that also has a video rental store at the side. Ashok's extended family includes his wife Radha, his brother Jatin, their ailing mother ... See full summary » Director:Deepa MehtaWriter:Deepa Mehta |
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Ramanjeet Kaur | ... |
Young Radha's mother
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Dilip Mehta | ... |
Young Radha's father
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Javed Jaffrey | ... |
Jatin
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Vinay Pathak | ... |
Guide at Taj Mahal
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Kushal Rekhi | ... |
Biji
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Ranjit Chowdhry | ... |
Mundu
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Ashok
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Alice Poon | ... |
Julie
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Ram Gopal Bajaj | ... |
Swamiji
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Ravinder Happy | ... |
Oily man in video shop
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Devyani Saltzman | ... |
Girl in video shop
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Sunil Chhabra | ... |
Milkman on bicycle
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Ashok runs a family business that sells takeout food that also has a video rental store at the side. Ashok's extended family includes his wife Radha, his brother Jatin, their ailing mother Biji and their manservant Mundu, all living under the same roof. Jatin, at the insistence of Ashok and their mother, Biji, agrees to marry the beautiful Sita in an arranged marriage, although he is actually in love with Julie, a Chinese-Indian. At first glance, you see a happy middle-class family going through the normal paces of everyday life. However, as the layers are slowly peeled back, we find a simmering cauldron of discontent within the family, with almost every family member living a lie. Both marriages in the family turn out to be emotionally empty, without love or passion. While Ashok is an ascetic who has taken a vow of celibacy, Jatin is a handsome ladies' man who is still openly seeing Julie even after his marriage to Sita. Ashok has pledged his total devotion to a religious holy man, a... Written by Hariharan
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Release Date:
22 August 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Fire - Wenn die Liebe Feuer fängt See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$14,384 (USA) (22 August 1997)Gross:
$402,749 (USA) (10 October 1997)Company Credits
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Radha: Yes.
Sita: You're lovely.
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Performed by Geeta Dutt & Hemanta Mukherjee (as Hemant Kumar)
Written by S.H. Bihari
Composed by Hemanta Mukherjee (as Hemant Kumar)
Courtesy of The Gramophone Company of India Limited
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On its opening day in India, some movie theaters were attacked by Hindu fundamentalists, and the movie was eventually banned for religious insensitivity. The film was banned in Pakistan for the lesbian relationship that the movie plays around. See more »Quotes
Sita: Isn't it amazing? We're so bound by customs and rituals. Somebody just has to press my button, this button marked Tradition, and I start responding like a trained monkey. Do I shock you?Radha: Yes.
Sita: You're lovely.
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"Aa Jaa Zara Mere Dil Ke Sahare"Performed by Geeta Dutt & Hemanta Mukherjee (as Hemant Kumar)
Written by S.H. Bihari
Composed by Hemanta Mukherjee (as Hemant Kumar)
Courtesy of The Gramophone Company of India Limited
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This intelligent, moving and beautiful film is a study in the ways people react to tradition (reminds me of William Faulkner's novels).
The characters all feel trapped by the weight of the roles they are expected to assume, and seek for a way to live within those roles rather than throw them off altogether. But as the story develops the two wives, trapped in loveless marriages, draw together. Drawing on the strength of their friendship and love, they give each other the courage to abandon their roles.
They have found that living within their traditions is no life at all, it is a sort of living death: without passion, without true connection to others, without fulfillment. Although they know there will be a price to be paid for their rebellion and freedom, it is a price much less dear than the sacrifice called for by a comfortable, predictable existence.
The screenplay is wonderful, the acting marvelous. Near perfect!