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With: Sarita Choudhury and Indira Varma
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Set in 16th-century India, Mira Nair's libidinous fever dream is a fairy tale that keeps melting into erotic reverie. Indira Varma, who's like an amorous sculpture come to life, plays a servant girl who becomes the object of worship for two men -- a selfish young king (Naveen Andrews) and a handsome sculptor (Ramon Tikaram) obsessed with her beauty, then her soul. Nair deliberately sacrifices dramatic verve to the flow of imagery. At times, the film feels fuzzy and ill disciplined, yet it has an overripe sensuality -- a commingling of skin, sweat, lust, and love -- that hits you like opium.
Posted Mar 28, 1997
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