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Directed by | Nisha Ganatra |
Written by | Susan Carnival Nisha Ganatra |
Produced by | Susan Carnival Nisha Ganatra |
Starring | Nisha Ganatra Jill Hennessy Sakina Jaffrey Madhur Jaffrey |
Cinematography | Erin King |
Edited by | Jane Pia Abramowitz |
Music by | Karsh Kale |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Chutney Popcorn is a 1999 comedy-drama film starring, directed and co-written by Nisha Ganatra.[1] Ganatra plays a young lesbian Indian American woman called Reena. Jill Hennessy plays her girlfriend Lisa, and Reena's mother and sister are played by real life mother and daughter Madhur Jaffrey and Sakina Jaffrey.[2] The film explores the conflict between Reena's sexual and national identities as well as her mother Meenu's attempts to come to terms with the Western lives of both her daughters.[3]