http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116743/



Directed by Mira Nair

Produced by Caroline Baron

Lydia Dean Pilcher

Mira Nair

Written by Helena Kriel

Mira Nair

Starring Rekha

Indira Varma

Naveen Andrews

Sarita Choudhury

Cinematography Declan Quinn

Editing by Kristina Boden

Distributed by Trimark Pictures

Release date(s) 28 February 1997

Running time 117 minutes

Country India

Language English

Budget $3,000,000 (estimated)



Set in 16th century India, this timeless movie depicts the story of two girls, Maya and Tara, who were raised together even though they come from different social classes. Tara (Sarita Choudhury) is an upper-caste princess while Maya (Indira Varma) is her beautiful servant. The two girls are best friends and have lived the same life, until they get old enough to start preparing for marriage. At this point, Tara is treated as a future princess being readied to marry Prince Raj Singh (Naveen Andrews ) but Maya is forced into the role of her servant and inferior. This culminates in an argument where Tara reminds Maya of her lowly position in life. Resentful, Maya exacts her revenge by sleeping with Prince Raj on the wedding night. Prince Raj himself is delighted with this opportunity, since he is an opium smoking playboy who loves sex, drinking, and nearly naked gladiator type fights. Maya tells Tara that just as Maya wore the princess's used clothes all her life, now Tara will have something Maya used for the rest of her life. When Maya's actions are discovered by Tara's brother Bikram, aka Biki, (who had been dreaming of making Maya his Queen since she was a child), he develops an intense lust for her and sends a proposal of marriage. When she refuses him, he brands her as a whore, and she is forced to leave her home.

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