Fire is a 1996 film loosely based on Ismat Chugtai's 1941 story, Lihaf (The Quilt) and was one of the first mainstream films in India to explicitly show homosexual relations.The film opens with young Radha sitting in a mustard field with her parents. Her mother tells her a story of a people who wanted to see the ocean; then she explains that sometimes one must learn to see some things (through her mind's eye) without looking.Wikipedia