#fire (1996)

[starryalpacasstuff]

this movie has been on ROTATE in my head for the past week, so much so that i finally caved and taught myself how to gif because i need more of these two

anyways psa go watch Fire (1996) if you haven't already

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Fire (1996)

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[starryalpacasstuff]

Just watched Fire (1996), a lesbian indian movie and oh my god

I am writing about it right now, it's amazing

[isittoolatenow]

my mom just told me about fire (1996), the first mainstream bollywood movie to feature a lesbian relationship starring shabana azmi and nandita das. adding it to my watchlist.

[virologistandpotato]

Finally finished watching Fire (1996) on YouTube, and I am floored! A lot of open-mindedness for a bollywood film at that time. I now see why there was an uproar against the film because it was spitting facts.

[365daysoflesbians]

NOVEMBER 5: Fire is released (1998)

On this day in 1998, the movie Fire was first released in India. The first of Deepa Mehta’s Elements trilogy and loosely based on Ismat Chughtai's 1942 story, The Quilt, it was one of the very first mainstream Bollywood movies to feature a same-gender love story.

Although it first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of 1996, Fire was not shown in India until November 5, 1998 (x).

Starring Nandita Das and Shabana Azmi, the movie features two young women named Radha and Sita who fall into a relationship with each other after becoming dissatisfied with their husbands. The two women are sisters-in-laws who live together in a traditional joint-living situation. Sita’s husband feels no love for her and constantly leaves her alone while he is out with his younger girlfriend, while Radha’s husband has come under the influence of a local preacher who has convinced him that sexual desire should be suppressed. Continually abandoned sexually and emotionally by their husbands, Radha and Sita begin an affair. The titular scene of the film is shown in the climax of the story when Radha announces to her husband that she plans to move out and start a home with Sita and her sari catches fire.

Fire became a controversial film upon its release. Although it passed India’s censorship laws, more than 200 people stormed a theater in suburban Mumbai in a December 2nd  riot and burned Fire movie posters. Multiple protests of the film rippled out from that and other theaters were forced to cancel their showing of the film. However, despite the riots and protests, many Indian film critics and gay activists praised the film for its “gutsy” portrayal of love between two women. Today in 2017, Fire is seen as one of the tenets of lesbian culture in India and remains a mainstay in the hearts of Indian women who love women.

-LC

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Release This Day- #Fire (06 September 1996) is an Indian-Canadian romantic drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, and starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. It is the first installment of Mehta's Elements trilogy; it is succeeded by Earth (1998) and Water (2005).

The film is loosely based on Ismat Chughtai's 1942 story, Lihaaf (The Quilt). It was one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to explicitly show homosexual relations. After its 1998 release in India, certain groups staged several protests, setting off a flurry of public dialogue around issues such as homosexuality and freedom of speech.

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