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About this movie

Genres:
Romance, Drama, Indian Cinema
Language:
English
Running time:
1:51:08
Partner rating:
REDS+ N+
Released:

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. Indira Varma Maya
  2. Sarita Choudhury Tara
  3. Ramon Tikaram Jai
  4. Naveen Andrews Raj Singh, The King
  5. Rekha Rasa Devi
  6. Khalid Tyabji
  7. Arundhati Rao Annabi
  8. Surabhi Bhansali
  9. Garima Dhup
  10. Pearl Padamsee
  11. Kusum Haidar
  12. Harish Patel
  13. Ranjit Chowdhry Baboo
  14. Achala Sachdev
  15. Arjun Sajnani
  16. Avijit Dutt
  17. Anjum Rajabali
  18. Siddharth Anand Kumar
  19. Debi Basu
  20. Rahul Vohra
  21. Manize Boga
  22. Prabeen Singh
  23. Cinia Jain
  24. Urvashi Nair
  25. Bhanumathi Rao
  26. Vasudeo Bhatt
  27. Moneeka Misra Tanvir
  28. Mina Sareen
  29. Maya Krishna Rao
  30. Shyamoli Varma
  31. Nandita Mehrotra
  32. Zoya Akhtar
  33. Deepti Datt
  34. Piu Dutt
  35. Dinaz Stafford
  36. Purnima Raju
  37. Daphnée Breytenbach
  38. Celesteann Cruz
  39. Nizami Chattarpur
  40. Yasmine Stafford
  41. Sunil Chabra
  42. Himanshu Malik
  43. Shubha Mudgal

Directors

  1. Mira Nair

Producers

  1. Lydia Dean Pilcher
  2. Mira Nair

Writers

  1. Helena Kriel
  2. Mira Nair

Kama Sutra - A Tale Of Love

In this visually striking saga of one woman's search for personal and sexual freedom in 16th century India, Maya (Indira Varma) is a servant girl who is a handmaid to Tara (Sarita Choudhury), a princess. Maya and Tara have been close friends since childhood, and when Rasa Devi (Rekha), an elegant courtesan, is brought in to instruct Tara in the lessons of the Kama Sutra, the handbook of the art of physical love, Maya is allowed to observe. Rasa teaches Tara the Dance of Enticement as a prelude to her upcoming marriage to the King, Raj Singh (Naveen Andrews), but the beautiful Maya turns out to be the more capable student, and when Raj invites Maya to his bedchamber, he proves to be no match for her seductive powers. Needless to say, Tara is furious when she learns that Maya has stolen Raj's heart, and Maya is banished from the palace. On the road, Maya soon meets a handsome sculptor, Jai Kumar (Ramon Tikaram), who is entranced by Maya's beauty and sexual prowess; she soon becomes his lover and favorite model. However, King Raj is still obsessed with Maya, and while Tara has won his hand in marriage, he has taken to drowning himself in opium and mindless sex with his mistresses when not trying to win Maya back. Several of the erotic scenes in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love were trimmed so the film could receive an "R" rating for its American theatrical release, but it appeared uncut on home video; the film had to be trimmed more extensively to gain a theatrical release in India, where it was filmed.

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