Chutney Popcorn

Réalisé par Nisha Ganatra

États-Unis, 1999 (fiction, 92 minutes, couleurs, anglais)

Description du film [en anglais] :
« To Meenu's delight, her older daughter, Sarita marries and, with her husband Mitch, looks forward to having children. To Meenu's dismay, her younger daughter, Reena, is in a lesbian relationship with Lisa and has no intention of providing her with grandchildren. When Sarita finds out she cannot have children, her and her mother's disappointment is palpable. Reena, to Lisa's consternation, offers to become a surrogate mother [...]. »
-- Janice R. Welsch, J.Q. Adams (source)

Générique (partiel) :
Scénario :	Susan Carnival, Nisha Ganatra
Produit par :	Herbert Beigel, Susan Carnival, Nisha Ganatra, Howard Gertler, Beverley Gordon, Roger Kass, Trina Wyatt
Interprètes principaux :	Nisha Ganatra, Jill Hennessy, Sakina Jaffrey, Madhur Jaffrey, Nick Chinlund, Cara Buono, Ajay Naidu, Daniella Rich
Images :	Erin King
Montage images :	Jane Pia Abramowitz
Musique :	Karsh Kale
Société de production :	First Look International, Mata Productions, Tribeca Productions

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Notes sur Chutney Popcorn

Tourné à New York.

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Citation de la réalisatrice [en anglais]

« Hinduism is very rich with ritual. Therefore, I structured the screenplay around the five central rituals performed by the mother in order to show an arc. [...] Then it was really important to make a cut from a Hindu ritual to a very dyke scene in the East Village, just to constantly show the difference and at the same time the similarity. A lot of the movie is about family and what families go through to stay together. So Reena has this family she's created with her American friends, and she also has this Indian family, which performs all these rituals. Of course there are also rituals in American culture and in girl culture. »
-- Nisha Ganatra (source)

Bibliographie sur Chutney Popcorn

Articles de journaux, de revues grand public ou de sites d'information en ligne

WEST, Dennis et Joan M. WEST « Dishing up comedy spiced with chutney: An interview with Nisha Ganatra », entretien avec Nisha Ganatra, Cineaste, vol. 26, no. 2, printemps 2001. [en anglais]

Sites Web sur Chutney Popcorn

« IMDb: Chutney Popcorn », Internet Movie Database, Inc, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126240/combined. [en anglais]