The heroine is a servant girl named Maya ( Indira Varma), who has always lived in the shadow of her childhood friend, the well-born Princess Tara ( Sarita Choudhury, from "Mississippi Masala''). ![]() Nothing in her previous work (the great film "Salaam Bombay!" and two good films, " Mississippi Masala" and " The Perez Family") prepared me for this exercise in exotic eroticism. ![]() To find a film like this from the 1960s, made by a man, would be one thing to find it made in 1997 by Mira Nair is more startling. "Kama Sutra'' is a lush, voluptuous tale told in 16th century India about two young women who grow up to pleasure a king-one as his wife, the other as his courtesan.
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