Seducing Maarya

Seducing Maarya
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Directed by	Hunt Hoe
Written by	Hunt Hoe
Produced by	Hunt Hoe
Starring	Nandana Sen Mohan Agashe Cas Anvar Vijay Mehta
Cinematography	Michael Wees
Edited by	Phyllis Lewis Hunt Hoe
Music by	Janet Lumb Dino Giancola
Release date	21 June 2000 (2000-6-21)
Running time	107 min
Countries	India Canada
Language	English

Seducing Maarya is a 2000 Canadian English drama film directed by Hunt Hoe with Nandana Sen, Cas Anvar, Vijay Metha, Ryan Hollyman and Mohan Agashe playing the lead roles.

The film was screened at the 31st International Film Festival of India and won the best director award at the Newport Beach International Film Festival in 2000. ^{[1] [2]}

Plot

Vijay Chatterjee, a lonely widower is a successful restaurateur in Montreal. He hires Maarya, who recently emigrated from Calcutta, to work in his restaurant. Considering her to be an apt girl for her son Aashish, he gets her to marry him. Thoroughly Westernized Aashish, it turns out is a homosexual. But she plays along, keeping the secret from the elder Chatterjee, so that she can remain in the country. As he realizes the newly married couple are not behaving like one, he decides to teach his son the art of seducing a woman, oblivious to his orientation. He ends up falling in love with her himself. As she is eventually involved with her benefactor and now father-in-law, things get more complicated when Zakir, her jealous knife-wielding brother (and her lover in India), enters their lives and Maarya is found to be pregnant. ^{[3] [4]}

Cast

• Nandana Sen as Maarya
• Mohan Agashe as Vijay Chatterjee
• Cas Anvar as Zakir
• Vijay Mehta as Ashish Chatterjee
• Ryan Hollyman as Michel
• Abhishekananda Singh Birla as Babu
• Cecile Cristobal as June Moon
• Hunt Hoe as Albert Woo
• Xavier Georges as Spike
• Todd Moxness as Skip - Band
• Kanika Kapoor
• Paraish Misra as Young Zakir
• Veena Sharma as Young Maarya

References

1. Vetticad, Anna M. M. "I'm not opposed to working in mainstream cinema: Nandana Dev Sen". India Today .
2. "A Big Finish for Newport Film Festival". Los Angeles Times. 8 April 2000. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
3. Jonathan Crow (2014). "Seducing Maarya". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on 19 November 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
4. "Seducing Maarya". Head Web. Retrieved 8 August 2015.^{[ permanent dead link ‍]}

External links

• Seducing Maarya at IMDb
• Seducing Maarya at Rotten Tomatoes
• Seducing Maarya