Fire Image
Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critics What's this?

  • 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)
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  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
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  1. 88
    Mehta 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.
  2. Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    80
    In filmmaker Mehta's deft hands, the outcome is handled with power and sensitivity. [22 Aug1 997, pg.N40]
  3. Reviewed by: David Parkinson
    60
    Audacious, 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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