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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.
Cast & Crew
Cast
- Nandita Das · Sita
- Shabana Azmi · Radha
- Javed Jaffrey · Jatin
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda · Ashok
- Kushal Rekhi · Biji
- Ranjit Chowdhry · Mundu
- Ramanjit Kaur · Young Radha's mother
- Karishma Jhalani · Young Radha
- Alice Poon · Julie
- Ram Gopal Bajaj · Swamiji
- Vinay Pathak · Guide at Taj Mahal
- Dilip Mehta · Young Radha's father
- Avijit Dutt · Julie's father
- Shasea Bahadur · Julie's brother
- Devyani Saltzman
- Sunil Chabra · Milkman on bicycle
- Meher Chand · Goddess Sita
- Bahadur Chand · God Ram
- Kabir Chowdhury
- Laurence Côte · French tourist at the Taj Mahal
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Details
- Release Date
- 6 September 1996
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Language
- Hindi
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