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…
Release Date: 22 August 1997Runtime:
Stars:
- Alice Poon
- Devyani Saltzman
- Dilip Mehta
- Javed Jaffrey
- Karishma Jhalani
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda
- Kushal Rekhi
- Nandita Das
- Ram Gopal Bajaj
- Ramanjeet Kaur
- Ranjit Chowdhry
- Ravinder Happy
- Shabana Azmi
- Sunil Chhabra
- Vinay Pathak
Director: Deepa Mehta
