Nandita Das & Shabana Azmi in film 'Fire' made by Deepa Mehta!

'FIRE'..20 YEARS!

"Fire'..fired!"
That was a reaction of delegates I heard in our 'International Film Festival of India' held at Trivandrum in 1997..after watching the film 'Fire' made by Indo-Canadian Deepa Mehta!

Novel 'Lihaaf's writer Ismat Chughtai!

Based on the novel 'Lihaaf' by Ismat Chughtai..this taboo-breaking film boldly showed the relationship of two Indian women..which portrayed by Shabana Azmi & Nandita Das! 

Conservatives protested against the film; but intellectuals especially feminists discussed the issue seriously!

'Fire's Nandita Das, Deepa Mehta & me at 'IFFI',Trivandrum!

I remembered this because film 'Fire' completed 20 years..And today is birthday of Nandita Das who became famous with this film!

I interviewed Deepa Mehta & Nandita Das in that 'IFFI'!

Regards to both of them!!

- Manoj Kulkarni
['Chitrasrushti', Pune, India]