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83%
Rotten Tomatoes

Director
  
Nisha Ganatra

Initial DVD release
  
August 14, 2001

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.8/10
IMDb

66%
Metacritic

Genre
  
Comedy, Drama

Music director
  
Karsh Kale

Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
July 9, 1999 (Outfest)September 22, 2000 (United States)January 15, 2001 (United Kingdom)

Writer
  
Susan Carnival, Nisha Ganatra

Cast
  
Nisha Ganatra
(Reena),
Jill Hennessy
(Lisa),
Sakina Jaffrey
(Sarita),
Madhur Jaffrey
(Meenu),
Cara Buono
(Janis)

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Tagline
  
A woman. Her girlfriend. A sister. Her husband. Their baby.

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. The film explores the conflict between Reena's sexual and national identities as well as her mother Meenu's attempts to come to terms with the Western lives of both her daughters.

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Plot

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Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York City. 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. Sarita and her husband accept Reena's offer but Sarita begins to have second thoughts. After Reena becomes pregnant, her relationship with her girlfriend Lisa suffers. When the baby is born, Reena and Lisa are reunited, as are Reena's family.

Cast

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  • Nisha Ganatra as Reena
  • Jill Hennessy as Lisa
  • Sakina Jaffrey as Sarita
  • Madhur Jaffrey as Meenu
  • Nick Chinlund as Mitch
  • Cara Buono as Janis
  • Ajay Naidu as Raju
  • Daniella Rich as Tiffany

    • Critical reception

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    The film has a score of 83% with a certified "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews.

    Awards

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    Chutney Popcorn won several film festival awards between 1999 and 2001 including at the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, the Paris Lesbian Film Festival and L.A. Outfest. It was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie in 2001.


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