Chutney Popcorn

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Starring
  Jill Hennessy
  Nick Chinlund
  Madhur Jaffrey
  Nisha Ganatra
  Cara Buono
  Ajay Naidu
  Sakina Jaffrey
  Daniella Rich
  Priscilla Lopez
  Amy Veltman
  Full Cast and Credits

Film Makers
  Nisha Ganatra
  Susan Carnival
  Trina Wyatt
  Roger Kass

Music
  Karsh Kale
  D J Spooky
  Talvin Singh
  The Spinanes
  Team Dresch
  Fireproof Recording

Screenings & Reviews

Photo Gallery

Story

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Awards

Audience Award Second Place Prize at Berlin Film Festival   [ Review ] 

Audience Award at the Newport Film Festival.

Best Feature Film at the San Francisco Film Festival.

Best Feature Film Public Award at the Paris International Film Festival.

Best Feature Film Audience Award at the Madrid International Film Festival.

Best of Festival Award and Best Narrative Feature at the Ojai Film Festival.

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Chutney Popcorn            

A full-length feature film, made by Nisha Ganatra.      
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Screenings New York, Thirteen WNET: 8PM on April 13, 2006.    Clips from Chutney Popcorn - as part of the larger segment on Indian filmmaking in New York City. Albuquerque, New Mexico: January 29, 2005    Guild Cinema    Fund-raising Event With the assistance of Albuquerque Pride 2005, NM VOICE magazine and WIMINFEST 2005, as they support the documentary film on same-sex marriage as it occurred in New Mexico on Feb. 20, 2004. Stanford University, CA: Jan 19, 2005 Brattleboro, Vermont: March 14-20, 2005    Women's Film festival, a fund-raiser for the Brattleboro Women's Crisis Center. Yale University, CT: Feb 10-17, 2005    Yale Queer Film Festival Completed Screenings Boston, USA: October 19, 2004    Boston University Oslo, Norway: October, 2004    Oslo Film Center Museum New York, USA: November, 2004    Jacob Burns Center at Lincoln Center Indian Premiere, Mumbai: Nov 20-27, 2003     International Film Festival

Reviews "Hollywood could learn a thing or two from Chutney Popcorn." - New York Times "One of the delights of Carnival and Ganatra's script is the consistency with which it manages to surprise" - VARIETY "A film we can all relate to. A great debut feature." - Diva "A lovely, funny and touching film. Look out for blessing ceremonies with girls and their mother, and also the dyke-spotting scene! Best film title of the month **** " - OUT "a delightful and heartfelt comedy" - NOW UK "The story ... carries off the tricky feat of being wisecracking one minute and serious the next while staying true to its characters and sustaining a jovial easygoing tone", Review by Stephen Holden, New York Times. SK's "Films Worth Seeing" -- "The film's chief triumph is its tone..." Review by Stanley Kauffmann, in The New Republic "Chutney Popcorn is sweet and salty", Review by Jay Carr, in the Boston Globe. "Snap, Crackle, and Pop", Review by Catharine Tunnacliffe, in the Toronto Eye. "Cleverly written...", Berlin Film Festival 2000 Review by Eddie Cockrell "An Eclectic Comedy for Our Times", Review by Stel Fine, hollywood.com "A sweet and inventive comedy" - The Boston Phoenix "Treats delicate topics with wit, sensitivity, and humor... Jaffrey turns in the most bitingly funny maternal portrait since Debbie Reynolds in Mother" - Variety "Audiences eat up Chutney Popcorn...", at thinkIndia. Article, and review, by Rachel Kramer Bussel writing for TechnoDyke. "The production values and cinematography are outstanding... in the Berlin Film Festival, 'Chutney Popcorn' won second place in the Panorama Audience Award and it's easy to see why." - Rainbow Network   More quotes Completed Screenings

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