Chutney Popcorn Reviews
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