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Overview

User Rating:
7.2/10   2,261 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Deepa Mehta (written by)
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Release Date:
22 August 1997 (USA) more
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Plot:
Ashok runs a family business that sells takeout food that also has a video rental store at the side... more | add synopsis
Awards:
6 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Worth watching. more (53 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Karishma Jhalani ... Young Radha
Ramanjeet Kaur ... Young Radha's mother
Dilip Mehta ... Young Radha's father
Javed Jaffrey ... Jatin (as Jaaved Jaaferi)
Nandita Das ... Sita
Vinay Pathak ... Guide at Taj Mahal
Kushal Rekhi ... Biji

Shabana Azmi ... Radha
Ranjit Chowdhry ... Mundu
Kulbhushan Kharbanda ... Ashok
Alice Poon ... Julie
Ram Gopal Bajaj ... Swamiji
Ravinder Happy ... Oily man in video shop
Devyani Saltzman ... Girl in video shop (as Devyani Mehta Saltzman)
Sunil Chabra ... Milkman on bicycle (as Sunil Chhabra)
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Runtime:
UK:108 min | USA:104 min
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Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (Manitoba) (re-rating) (2005) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) (original rating) | Malaysia:(Banned) | Iceland:L | USA:PG-13 | India:A | France:U | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:Unrated | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:Unrated | India:(Banned) | Germany:12
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On its opening day in India, some movie theaters were attacked by Hindu fundamentalists, and the movie was eventually banned for religious insensitivity. The film was banned in Pakistan for the lesbian relationship that the movie plays around. more
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Swamiji: What I saw in the bedroom was a sin in the eyes of God and men. more
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Followed by Water (2005/I) more
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Allah Hukh more

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6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
Worth watching., 26 November 2004
10/10
Author: Helen Noble from Massachusetts, U.S.

Previous reviewer Claudio Carvalho gave a much better recap of the film's plot details than I could. What I recall mostly is that it was just so beautiful, in every sense - emotionally, visually, editorially - just gorgeous.

If you like movies that are wonderful to look at, and also have emotional content to which that beauty is relevant, I think you will be glad to have seen this extraordinary and unusual work of art.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it about an 8.75. The only reason I shy away from 9 is that it is a mood piece. If you are in the mood for a really artistic, very romantic film, then it's a 10. I definitely think it's a must-see, but none of us can be in that mood all the time, so, overall, 8.75.

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