Fire (1996)
- Original title
- फायर
- Directed by
- Deepa Mehta
- Genre
- drama film, erotic film, romance film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- India, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Rated
- A
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 71 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Two sisters-in-law in a traditional Indian household find comfort and passion in each other as their marriages fail them. The film follows their hidden relationship and the tensions it creates within the family.
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What happens
Fire is a 1996 English-language romantic drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. An Indo-Canadian co-production, 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 Chughtai's 1942 story, "Lihaaf" ("The Quilt"). Fire is one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to explicitly show homosexual relations, and the first to feature a lesbian relationship. After its 1998 release in India, activists staged several protests, setting off a flurry of public dialogue around issues such as homosexuality and freedom of speech. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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