Fire (Widescreen) |  | Director: Deepa Mehta
Actors: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Karishma Jhalani, Ramanjeet Kaur, Dilip Mehta
Studio: Warner
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 17,589
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 0
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: NYVD65300D
ISBN: 1567302246
UPC: 717119653040
EAN: 9781567302240
ASIN: 1567302246
Release Date: May 29, 2003
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta scored some modest successes with a couple of engaging North American comedy-dramas (Camilla and Sam and Me) about atypical relationships. With Fire, the first of three films set in India, she looks at relationships that run counter to accepted mores. The film focuses on two sisters-in-law (Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das) who, living in a crowded household and smothered by lifeless marriages, eventually turn to each other for intimacy. It's a beautiful, interesting drama that benefits from its locale, but Mehta (who also wrote the script) directs with a solemnity--perhaps intended to echo the stifling marriages--that wears thin after a while. And for a story all about repressed emotions and illicit passions, there's little fire in the leads: the turn in their relationship seems to come out of nowhere and their reaction to it is surprisingly blasé. The film attempts a more ambitious approach than one might expect, refusing to entirely paint characters in black and white. As boorish, insensitive and repellant as the male characters can be at times, Mehta evokes sympathy for them too, depicting them as victims of society's constraining expectations. --D.K. Latta
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