Ashok runs a family business that sells takeout food that also has a video rental store at the side. Ashok's extended family includes his wife Radha, his brother Jatin, their ailing mother ...
Director: Deepa Mehta
Writer: Deepa Mehta
Stars: Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Karishma Jhalani
Storyline
Ashok runs a family business that sells takeout food that also has a
video rental store at the side. Ashok's extended family includes his
wife Radha, his brother Jatin, their ailing mother Biji and their
manservant Mundu, all living under the same roof. Jatin, at the
insistence of Ashok and their mother, Biji, agrees to marry the
beautiful Sita in an arranged marriage, although he is actually in love
with Julie, 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...
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