Fire (1996 film)

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).

This article is about the Indo-Canadian film. For the Pakistani film of the same name, see Fire (2002 film).

Fire
Film poster
Directed byDeepa Mehta
Written byDeepa Mehta
Produced byBobby Bedi
Deepa Mehta
StarringNandita Das
Shabana Azmi
CinematographyGiles Nuttgens
Edited byBarry Farrell
Music byA. R. Rahman
Production
companies
Kaleidoscope Entertainment
Trial by Fire Films
Distributed byZeitgeist Films
Release dates
  • 6 September 1996 (1996-09-06) (TIFF)
  • 5 November 1998 (1998-11-05) (India)
Running time
108 minutes
CountriesIndia
Canada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$800,000
Box office$501,533

The film is loosely based on Ismat Chughtai's 1942 story, "Lihaaf" ("The Quilt"). Fire is one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to explicitly show homosexual relations, and the first to feature a lesbian relationship. 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.

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