The film’s greatest triumph is the way Ganatra breaks down seemingly impassable messiness, making an impassioned case for the power of love to persist under the harshest circumstances.

Full Review | Apr 25, 2024

A lovely film about the complications of love and family,

Full Review | Feb 12, 2024

It’s fun, fat-free and finger-lickin’ good.

Full Review | May 16, 2022

The film runs out of comic situations after the first hour and resorts to too many senseless montages

Full Review | May 29, 2020

Its strengths are many, but by the end, it's clear that this debut feature has missed one too many opportunities that would have made it a sharper social satire.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 29, 2020

With henna tattoos drawing parallels between Indian tradition and the lesbian lifestyle, it's a canny sitcom.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2020

Ganatra and co-writer Susan Carnival do a fine job of illuminating and contrasting the Indian and lesbian cultures, drawing subtle yet strong visual linkages and peppering their script with healthily acerbic observations.

Full Review | May 29, 2020

Part portrait of merging cultures, part investigation of the parameters of family loyalty, "Chutney Popcorn" is many things, the most important of which is a very good comedy.

Full Review | Mar 27, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2005

While covering the many tangles and snags of a modern family, Ganatra also examines how immigration affects them.

Full Review | Mar 10, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2003

A funny, observant, and smart look at how differences in values can take place within one family.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2001

That really obvious Film School Feeling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 18, 2001

Hollywood could learn a thing or two about how to be truthful and lighthearted at the same time from Nisha Ganatra's perky little comedy ''Chutney Popcorn.''

Full Review | Apr 3, 2001