Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes, habits, and hobbies are the same. Years later, the two have matured, but have maintained their friendship. Tara gets married to the local prince, Raj Singh, who soon succeeds the throne as the sole heir. After the marriage, Raj gets bored of Tara and starts seeking another female to satisfy his sexual needs. He notices Maya and is instantly attracted to her. He has her included as one of his courtesans, and is intimate with her. Watch what happens when Tara finds out and the extent she will go to keep her marriage intact. –IMDb
The highly acclaimed director from India, Mira Nair leapt into the world’s spotlight with her film Salaam, Bombay! This film is considered by many to be her best work although she may be better known for the controversial subject matter of her latest film Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love.
Mira Nair was born in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa to a civil servant in 1957. She went on to attend the University of New Delhi where she studied Sociology and Theater. Dissatisfied with the quality of the education, she applied elsewhere. As result she came to Harvard in 1976 on full scholarship to continue studying Sociology. While at Harvard her focus drifted to documentary film. She describes documentary as “a marriage of my interests in the visual arts, theatre, and life as it is lived”.
Mira’s first film was Jama Masjid Street Journal which was also her Master’s thesis project. This film explores the life of a traditional Muslim community from the Western perspective… read more
Uno de esos raros films producidos en la India que logran traspasar las fronteras de su país y gozar de cierto éxito en las pantallas occidentales. (Claro que tratandose de una co-producción con otros cuatro paises...) La regular cineasta Mira Nair ya contaba con cierto renombre gracias a cintas como Salaam , Bombay! y Missisippi Massala; sin embargo, fue con esta cinta que logro consagrarse entre algunos de los sectores de cinefilos internacionales menos exigentes. Se supone el film causó cierta controversia debido a la desenfadada tematica sexual que maneja, ajena a la gran mayoria del tipicamente casto e intrascendente cine comercial que suele filmarse por esos lares (por su duración y para los estandares del cine indio, esta cosa es apenas un cortometraje). No obstante, en realidad, todo el asunto no pasa de ser otro producto de facil consumo, con unos cuantos timidos toques de cachondez ramplona que, a fin de cuentas, logró su objetivo de deslumbrar a uno que otro espectador con sus escasos aciertos en el aspecto visual, la deliciosa presencia de la protagonista Indira Varma y la música del entonces de moda (gracias a los films de Egoyan) Mychael Danna. Además de Nair, la otra gran "beneficiada" por este proyecto fue la co-protagonista Sarita Choudhury, quién gracias a su participación en este film, pudo comenzar una discreta carrera en el cine hollywoodense (en puros papeles secundarios).
Beautiful cinematography and score by Mychael Danna are the two standouts for me, but the but performances were also strong.