爱火

由加籍印裔女导演迪帕．梅塔执导，曾获芝加哥国际影展奖。因内容显示在突破传统的 “性禁锢方面，以是公映时竟触发怒潮，成为众矢之的，导演自己亦蒙受威吓。剧情先容新德里一个年轻仙颜姑娘嫁入中产店主家庭后，因丈夫沉缅于香港工夫，并流连于中国艳女而受到冷落。而不育的大嫂亦因丈夫参与 “灵修倍感孤寂，两人惺惺相惜遂成闺中石友，并进展成床上鸳鸯。后来东窗事发，迫使两人离家出奔。该片在印度来讲，内容较为惹火，但比起香港片，好像仍显平谈，而且剧情颇为噱头，算不上佳作。不外对女性情欲描写极为过细，有一定的文艺剧乐趣味。该片还入选香港 “印度多面睇十大印度影片。　　Ashok (Kulbhushan Kharbanda ) runs a family business that sells takeout food and which also has a video rental store at the side. Ashok's extended family includes his wife Radha (Shabana Azmi ), his brother Jatin (Javed Jaffrey ), their ailing mother Biji (Kushal Rekhi) and their manservant Mundu (Ranjit Chowdhry), all living under the same roof. Jatin, at the insistence of Ashok and their mother, Biji, agrees to marry the beautiful Sita (Nandita Das ) in an arranged marriage, although he is actually in love with Julie (Alice Poon), a Chinese-Indian. At first glance, you see a happy middle-class family going through the normal paces of everyday life. However, as the layers are slowly peeled back, we find a simmering cauldron of discontent within the family, with almost every family member living a lie. Both marriages in the family turn out to be emotionally empty, without love or passion. While Ashok is an ascetic who has taken a vow of celibacy, Jatin is a handsome ladies' man who is still openly seeing Julie even after his marriage to Sita. Ashok has pledged his total devotion to a religious holy man, a swami, in order to purge his life of worldly desires and temptations. Radha, bound by her sense of duty to her husband, agrees to go along with his wishes. As you can imagine, with both husbands ignoring their spouses' emotional and sexual needs (albeit with reasons that are totally opposite from each other), it is only a matter of time before Radha and Sita look to one another for comfort and to satisfy their own passions. In this environment, it is only natural that Sita and Radha become fast friends, and, in time, much more than that. But their love is not without its share of painful obstacles.