Fire Plot

Radha (Shabana Azmi), is the consummate Indian housewife, unwaveringly committed to her husband Ashok (Kulbushan Kharbanda), whom she wed in an arranged marriage fifteen years ago. Their mutual devotion has survived despite a childless, passionless marriage. They live with Ashok's younger brother, Jatin (Jaaved Jaaferi), who was recently pressured into an arranged marriage with Sita ( Nandita Das). Unlike his brother, Jatin rejects marital traditions and continues to see his mistress, Julie. Sita, however, as a new bride betrayed, has a few surprises of her own in store. Sita's sensual presence and excitable nature ignites emotions and feelings in Radha repressed long ago, and it is just a matter of time before they fall in love and set the home and screen on fire. An intense, moving and sensuous portrait of change in contemporary India, FIRE focuses on several generations of a modern day New Delhi family. A re-working of a story from the classic Hindu Ramayana, Fire recounts the family's struggle to cope with the pressures of greater individual and personal freedom while maintaining allegiance to traditional values.