| 3 Movies Set
I Can't Think Straight (2008) Also Known As: Do Jism Ek Pyar Country: India Language: English Year: 2008 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mature, Romance
Description Tala, a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian origin, prepares for an elaborate wedding with her Jordanian fiancé, when she encounters a timid Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend Ali.
Tala comes from a spirited Christian family; whereas Leyla's strong Muslim upbringing could not be more different from each other but the attraction is immediate between both girls. Tala's feisty nature provokes Leyla out of her shell and soon both women reveal their feelings for each other.
However, Tala is not ready to accept the implications of the choice her heart has made and escapes back to Jordan where her chain-smoking, high-brow mother finishes preparations for her ostentatious wedding. As family members descend and the wedding day approaches, simmering family tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself and she breaks off the wedding.
Meanwhile a heartbroken Leyla relishes her newly found sense of identity and self-respect and moves on with her new life - much to the shock of her parents. Single again, Tala flies back to London - but it will take more than just a date set up by Ali and Leyla's sister Zina to win Leyla back.
Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Shah, Dalip Tahil, Antonia Frering, Nina Wadia, Daud Shah, Anya Lahiri, Gabrielle Amies, Amber Rose Revah, Rez Kempton, Ernest Ignatius, Siddiqua Akhtar, Kimberly Jaraj, Sam Vincenti, George Tardios, Ishwar Maharaj, Jessica Allsop | | Director: Shamim Sarif Music Director: Raiomond Mirza
| | Fire (1996) Country: India Language: English Year: 1996 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama
Description The film is set in contemporary Delhi, India, in the household of a joint family which runs a fast-food and video business in the ground floor of their two-story home. The protagonists are the two daughters-in-law, both of whom have joined the family by marriage: Sita (Nandita Das), who is newly wed to the younger son Jatin (Javed Jaffrey); and Radha (Shabana Azmi), who has been married to the elder son Ashok (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) for 15 years. Both couples are unhappy. Jatin, who feels he has been pressured into marriage by the family, neglects Sita and continues to see his Chinese girlfriend. Ashok has chosen to become a tapasvin (an ascetic) after discovering that Radha is infertile, and has been using her to test his resolve in celibacy for 13 years. The two women turn to each other for solace and become lovers. Tipped off by a servant, Ashok discovers them in bed together. Sita leaves, while Radha, who wishes to explain matters to Ashok, promises to meet her outside to start a new life together. In the confrontation that follows, Radha's sari catches fire from the kitchen stove and Ashok abandons her in flames. In the final scene, the two women are reunited.
Cast: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Javed Jaffrey, Karishma Jhalani, Ramanjeet Kaur, Dilip Mehta, Vinay Pathak, Ranjit Chowdhry, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Alice Poon, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Avijit Dutt | | Director: Deepa Mehta Music Director: A R Rahman
| | Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996) Also Known As: Kamasutra Country: India Language: English Year: 1996 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Mature
Description Set in 16th century India, Kama Sutra brings the legends to life as it follows the fortunes of Maya and Tara. Tara is a princess, Maya her servant. Raised together as childhood friends and rivals, each in different ways uses the teachings of the Kama Sutra, the 4th century Indian treatise on love and sexuality, as a source of inspiration and enlightenment in a high-stakes romantic and lustful game they play to get what they desire. And when Maya finally achieves the equality with Tara which she has always desired, the price that must be paid is mythic in its finality.
Cast: Rekha, Naveen Andrews, Sarita Choudhury, Ramon Tikaram, Indira Varma, Pearl Padamsee, Urvashi Nair, Arundhati Rao, Avijit Dutt | | Director: Mira Nair Music Director: Mychael Danna
| | | Format: DVD Label: Eagle Catalog No: EDVD L 3773 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 3 Subtitles: English Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
