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Chutney Popcorn is a 1999 comedy-drama film starring, directed and co-written by Nisha Ganatra. 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]
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Jun 14, 2021 · I can count on my hand the number of queer South Asian movies that have come out in the past 20 years, and Chutney Popcorn is almost always on the top of that list two decades later.
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Sep 19, 2023 · Indian Pickles and Chutney Recipes; ... Charles Cretor invented the first steam-powered popcorn machine in 1885. This machine made it possible to pop popcorn fast and easily, contributing to the ...
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Summaries. Reena is a young, gay Indian-American woman who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister's baby, hoping to improve her relationship with their mother, who disapproves of Reena's sexual orientation.
Dec 29, 2003 · So Chutney Popcorn, released in 2000, wooed not only NRIs but also audiences at festivals in Berlin, Paris and Madrid. As actor Sakina Jaffrey, who plays Ganatra's sister in Popcorn, puts it, "She has shown the world that she can make a crowd pleasing movie about an Indian-American lesbian and her family.
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Mar 24, 2023 · It's a super tricky subject to even comprehend and yet in the 90s an independent film called Chutney Popcorn dove straight into it, with sitcom-style comedy. Directed and co-written by Nisha Ganatra, the film is about Reena, an affable, wisecracking New York photographer and henna-tattoo artist whose queer sexuality troubles her traditionalist ...
Chutney Popcorn ★★½ 1999Amusing and touching comedy about family ties and cultural differences. Reena (Ganatra) is a New York photographer from a very traditional East Indian immigrant family.
