Actress-director Nandita Das has revisited Fire on the big screen nearly 25 years after its release, calling the experience unexpectedly moving. The actress-director caught the screening at the Singapore International Film Festival during a recent trip, describing it as “surprising” for how sharply the memories returned. “I remembered every moment of it — my dialogues, even those of the others, the lighting, the music, pretty much all of it!” she wrote on Instagram.

Fire (1996), directed by Deepa Mehta, remains one of India’s earliest mainstream films to portray a lesbian relationship — a landmark that sparked fierce backlash but also positioned Das and Shabana Azmi as formative voices in socially engaged cinema. What made the Singapore screening “extra special,” Das said, was watching it

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