- Studio: Zeitgeist Films
- Release Date: Aug 22, 1997
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- Starring: Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi
- Summary: Deepa Mehta's tender, passionate and controversial love story of two Indian women torn between their devotion to duty and their desire for love and companionship. (Zeitgeist Films)
- Director: Deepa Mehta
- Genre(s): Drama, Romance
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88Mehta has created a pair of memorable characters who are easy to empathize with, and who gratifyingly are never transformed from flesh-and-blood individuals into mere symbols.
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In filmmaker Mehta's deft hands, the outcome is handled with power and sensitivity. [22 Aug1 997, pg.N40]
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60Audacious, yet sensitive, Fire may shock traditionalists but is the sort of film that ought to win Indian cinema a whole new audience.
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