Back حريق (فيلم 1996) Arabic ফায়ার (১৯৯৬-এর চলচ্চিত্র) Bengali/Bangla Fire – Wenn Liebe Feuer fängt German Fuego (película de 1996) Spanish آتش (فیلم ۱۹۹۶) Persian Fire (vuoden 1996 elokuva) Finnish Fire (film, 1996) French Fire (filme de 1996) Galician फ़ायर (1996 फ़िल्म) Hindi Fire (film 1996) Italian
| Fire | |
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| Directed by | Deepa Mehta |
| Written by | Deepa Mehta |
| Produced by | Bobby Bedi Deepa Mehta |
| Starring | Nandita Das Shabana Azmi |
| Cinematography | Giles Nuttgens |
| Edited by | Barry Farrell |
| Music by | A. R. Rahman |
Production companies | Kaleidoscope Entertainment Trial by Fire Films |
| Distributed by | Zeitgeist Films |
Release dates |
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Running time | 108 minutes[1] |
| Countries | India Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $800,000 |
| Box office | $501,533[2] |
Fire is a 1996 Indo-Canadian erotic romantic drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. It is the first installment of Mehta's Elements trilogy; it is succeeded by Earth (1998) and Water (2005).
The film is loosely based on Ismat Chughtai's 1942 story, "Lihaaf" ("The Quilt").[3] Fire is one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to explicitly show homosexual relations, and the first to feature a lesbian relationship.[4][5] After its 1998 release in India, activists staged several protests, setting off a flurry of public dialogue around issues such as homosexuality and freedom of speech.[6][7][4]
- ^ "Fire (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 1 October 1998. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ "Fire (1997) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ^ Gopinath, Gayatri (2005). Impossible Desires. Durham and London: Duke University press. ISBN 9780822386537.
- ^ a b Choudhury, Aishwarya (25 November 2015). "So, This Is What Went into The Making of Bollywood's First-Ever Lesbian Kiss Back in The '90s". ScoopWhoop. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- ^ Darren, Alison (2000). Lesbian Film Guide (1st ed.). London: Cassell. pp. 74–75. ISBN 030433376X. LCCN 99043640.
- ^ North, Madline (10 December 1998). "Women: Fighting Fire; Last week, activists ran riot at a cinema in Delhi in protest at the screening of Fire, a film about lesbians. Shabana Azmi a member of both India's parliament and the film's cast, explains why it should be shown". The Guardian (London).
- ^ Gopinath, Gayatri (2005). Impossible desires: Queer diasporas and south asian public cultures. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 131. ISBN 0822335018.