Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 07/14/2000(USA
Release Date: 08/14/2001
Sound: DD
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Wolfe Video
The push and pull of familial bonds and clashing cultures sets the stage for the comic drama
Chutney Popcorn. Renna (
Nisha Ganatra) is a young woman of Indian descent living in New York, where she works as both a photographer and a body artist who creates henna tattoos. Renna is also a lesbian, which does not please her mother, Meenu (
Madhur Jaffrey), who prefers to dote on her more traditionally minded (and happily married) daughter Sarita (
Sakina Jeffrey). One day, Renna gets some bad news from Sarita: While she and her husband have been trying to have a baby, her doctor has informed that her she is infertile and will never bear a child of her own. Renna volunteers to serve as surrogate mother for Sarita; she wants to help her sister and hopes this will smooth some of the rough spots in her relationship with her mother. But Renna starts to have second thoughts, as her lover Lisa (
Jill Hennessy) feels left out of the loop, and Meenu thinks both Renna and Sarita are making a mistake.
Nisha Ganatra co-wrote and directed
Chutney Popcorn and also plays Renna; the film was enthusiastically received in its screening at the 1999
Los Angeles Independent Film Festival.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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