Spices
Directed by Ketan Mehta, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah.

This 1989 film is set in 1940s colonial India and tells the story of the women of a particular village’s rebellion against male tyranny.

This article appears in July 19 • 1991 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.