In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.

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Runtime

108 min

Box Office

$501,533

Released Aug 1997

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Directed by

Deepa Mehta

Written byDeepa Mehta

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Nandita Das
Sita
Shabana Azmi
Radha
Javed Jaffrey
Jatin
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Ashok
Kushal Rekhi
Biji
Ranjit Chowdhry
Mundu

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Nandita Das

Shabana Azmi

Javed Jaffrey

Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Kushal Rekhi

Ranjit Chowdhry

Karishma Jhalani

Alice Poon

Ram Gopal Bajaj

Vinay Pathak

Dilip Mehta

Ramanjeet Kaur

Avijit Dutt

Shasea Bahadur

Deepa Mehta

Bobby Bedi

Deepa Mehta

A.R. Rahman

Deepa Mehta

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