• Arathythomas

The film Fire questions lunatic guardians of Hindu morality. Seemingly it is a naïve and boring film about two unhappy housewives compelled to seek emotional and sexual satisfaction from each other, because their husbands provide none. But for Deepa Mehta, the film director it raises a political statement intended to combat the maltreatment of women inherent in Indian culture and it also throws a challenge to what she considers as oppressive for women among the Hindu traditionalists. Mehta daringly exposes the image of India as a nation embedded with the tradition of oppression through the recurring ideas of desire, choice, and control. The two heroines of the film is named after the cultural icons Radha and Sita, “the two wronged women of Indian mythology”(qtd.in Kishwar). Mehta entitles the film Fire, to draw a parallel between the domestic melodrama in the film and Sita’s agnipariksha in the epic Ramayana, to make her audience conscious about the harmful offshoot of the continuing hold of Indian traditions. Though Mehta use the instance of agnipariksha to mock this hold of Indian traditions, she tactically uses the same tool to prove the worthiness of heroine’s new found lesbian love by the end of the film.

Normal, abnormal, dichotomy, hetero normative

"Normal vs Abnormal Sexual Orientations: A Question of Inclusion in the Film Fire.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.382-386, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907514.pdf

"Normal vs Abnormal Sexual Orientations: A Question of Inclusion in the Film Fire.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp382-386, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907514.pdf