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Title: Worth Viewing
Review: This isn't Biji's Bollywood. This is Deepa Mehta's New Delhi, India, during a time of transition. Fire is about burning desire-- for passion, for life, for the vision that is behind the eyes. This is not a love story, per se, but a liberation story.The story line is quite basic: in a middle class family, one husband devotes himself to his swami and vows celibacy while his younger brother, forced into a traditional wedding, continues to see his lover. Both wives tend to the restaurant and their husbands' mother, following traditional roles of subservience. Until they discover, or uncover, their passion for one another.So if the plot is not the draw, why watch this film? It gives a glimpse of the upcoming middle class (late 1990s) life--the juxtaposition of uberurban cosmopolitan life and traditional mores. It is India trying to grow into itself.
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