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Fire is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Deepa Mehta released in USA on 22 august 1997 with Nandita Das

Fire (1997)

फायर

Fire
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Released in USA 22 august 1997
Length 1h48
Directed by
OriginCanada
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating70% 3.5468353.5468353.5468353.5468353.546835

Fire (Hindi: Phāyar फायर) is a 1996 Indian-Canadian romantic drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta and starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. It is the first installment of Mehta's Elements trilogy; it is succeeded by Earth (1998) and Water (2005).

The film is loosely based on Ismat Chugtai's 1942 story, Lihaaf (The Quilt). It was one of the first mainstream films in India to explicitly show homosexual relations. After its 1998 release in India, certain groups staged several protests, setting off a flurry of public dialogue around issues such as homosexuality and freedom of speech.

Synopsis

The film opens with young Radha sitting in a mustard field with her parents. Her mother tells her a story of a person who wanted to see the ocean; then she explains that sometimes one must learn to see some things (through her mind's eye) without looking.

Actors

Nandita Das

(Sita)Shabana Azmi

(Radha)Javed Jaffrey

(Jatin)Vinay Pathak

(Guide at Taj Mahal)Kulbhushan Kharbanda

(Ashok)
And :
Ram Gopal Bajaj
Laurence Côte
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