108 minutes • 1996 • India • In Hindi/English • Rated NR
Dir: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Karishma Jhalani, Ramanjeet Kaur, Nandita Das, Dilip Mehta
In New Delhi Sita, a beautiful and intelligent young woman embarks on an arranged, loveless marriage to a faithless husband, Jatin. The extended family, owners of a video store, live together according to custom. Family tensions escalate. Radha, Sita's sister-in-law, is unable to conceive; her disappointed husband Ashok (Sita's husband's brother) has taken a vow of celibacy, acquired a swami and is often gone. Eventually Jita and Radha develop a physical relationship which is far more emotionally sustaining than they have found with their husbands.