Deepa Mehta has, no
doubt, picked up a challenging idea but
has she been able to rise up to it,
effectively? Hasn’t she botched up a
perfectly fine, a sensitive theme through
her inept, shoddy treatment of the
cinematic medium? How far has she been
able to raise the film above the level of
mere pornography? These are some of the
questions Fire
leaves us with, says
Rana Nayar
