The extended family never looked so screwed up as this lower-middle-class New Delhi tribe. Mundu (Randit Chowdhry) works in the family take-out restaurant/video store and is expected to watch over mute, aged matriarch Biji, but actually spends his time
beating off to purloined porno tapes while the silent mater watches. Radha (Shabana Azmi) is trapped in a barren marriage to Ashok, who's more dedicated to his swami than his spouse. Newlyweds Sita (Nandita Das) and Jatin (Jaaved Jaaferi), Ashok's brother, are patently mismatched, what with
Jatin's interests running to his Chinese mistress and other corrupting, non-Indian influences. But Sita, homesick and wounded by...
Released:
1996
Rated:
NR
Length:
108 mins