Winner
Berlin International Film Festival
Audience Award (1999)
AsianWomenDirectorsPublic Beta
Chutney Popcorn
Directed by Nisha Ganatra
1999•92 min
- Genre
- Drama
- Topic
- Love & Desire
- Mood
- Tender
- Language
- English
- Featured in
- Queer Lives, Up Close
Synopsis
A woman. Her girlfriend. A sister. Her husband. Their baby.
Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily 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. Reena has second thoughts when her girlfriend Lisa feels left out.
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Selected Awards
Winner
Newport Beach Film Festival
Audience Award (1999)
Winner
Outfest
Audience Award (1999)
Footnote
- First
One of the first feature films centering a South Asian American lesbian character — one of the first South Asian films to premiere at Outfest
Main Cast
Nisha GanatraReena
Jill HennessyLisa
Sakina JaffreySarita
Madhur JaffreyMeenu
Nick ChinlundMitch
Cara BuonoJanis
