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Watch: Fire 1996 123movies, Full Movie Online – In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha’s life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage..
Plot: In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha’s life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 6,124
	89% | RottenTomatoes
	64/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 54 Popularity: 5.334 | TMDB

Reviews:

Above-average screenplay
This is my first Deepa Mehta film. I saw the film on TV in its Hindi version with its “Sita” character presented as Nita. I also note that it is Radha who underwent the allegorical trial by fire in the film and not Nita/Sita. Yet what I loved about the film was its screenplay by Ms Mehta, not her direction. The characters, big and small, were well-developed and seemed quixotic towards the end–somewhat like the end of Mazursky’s “An Unmarried Woman.” They are brave women surrounded by cardboard men. And one cardboard man (Ashok) seems to come alive in the last shot we see of him—carrying his invalid mother Biji. He seems to finally take on a future responsibility beyond celibacy and adherance to religion.

Ms Mehta seems to fumble as a director (however, compared to most Indian mainstream cinema she would seem to be brilliant) as she cannot use her script to go beyond the microscopic joint family she is presenting except presenting a glimpse of the Chinese micro-minority in the social milieu of India. She even dedicates the film to her mother and daughter (not her father!) Yet her Radha reminesces of halcyon days with both her parents in a mustard field. Compare her to Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Muzaffar Ali and she is dwarfed by these giants–given her competent Canadian production team and financial resources! Mehta’s film of two bisexual ladies in an Indian middle-class household may be sacrilege to some, but merely captures the atrophy of middle-class homes that does not seem to aspire for something better than its immediate survival in a limited social space. Kannada, Malayalam, and Bengali films have touched parallel themes in India but did not have the publicity that surrounded this film and therefore have not been seen by a wide segment of knowledgeable cinemagoers.

Ms Das, Ms Azmi, Mr Jafri and Mr Kharbanda are credible but not outstanding. Ms Azmi is a talented actress who gave superb performances under good directors (Mrinal Sen’s “Khandar”, Gautam Ghose’s “Paar”, Benegal’s “Ankur”) a brilliance notably absent in this film. Ms Das sparkled due to her screen presence rather than her acting capability. All in all, the film’s strength remains in the structure of the screenplay which is above average in terms of international cinema. I am sure Ms Mehta can hone her writing talents in her future screenplays.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 48 min (108 min), 1 hr 48 min (108 min) (UK), 1 hr 44 min (104 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 501533
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Deepa Mehta
Writer Deepa Mehta
Actors Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Karishma Jhalani
Country Canada, India
Awards 7 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Ultra Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1 (theatrical release)
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, Canada (also prints)
Film Length 3,007 m
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format N/A