Citation :
« Fire qualifies as a queer classic because it is the first Indian film to bring women in love out of the margins and into the mainstream and to provide a body to the shadow-like subliminal lesbian of film narratives in India. But more importantly, Fire inaugurates a new interpretive strategy by explicitly crossing the line between female homosociality and female homosexuality. »
-- Shohini Ghosh

Source :
GHOSH, Shohini. Fire: A Queer Film Classic, Vancouver, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010. [en anglais] (p. 147)