---
title: 'Chutney Popcorn (1999)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Nisha Ganatra'
released: '1999-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 92
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/chutney-popcorn-1999'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126240/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Chutney Popcorn (1999)

1999 · 92 min · Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

Chutney Popcorn is a 1999 comedy-drama film starring, directed and co-written by Nisha Ganatra, in her acting, writing and directorial debut. Ganatra plays a young lesbian Indian American woman called Reena. Jill Hennessy plays her girlfriend Lisa, and Reena's mother and sister are played by real life mother and daughter Madhur Jaffrey and Sakina Jaffrey. The film explores the conflict between Reena's sexual and national identities as well as her mother Meenu's attempts to come to terms with the Western lives of both her daughters.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Nisha Ganatra](https://cinepixo.com/people/nisha-ganatra)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Karsh Kale](https://cinepixo.com/people/karsh-kale)

## Cast

- [Cara Buono](https://cinepixo.com/people/cara-buono)
- [Madhur Jaffrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/madhur-jaffrey)
- [Nisha Ganatra](https://cinepixo.com/people/nisha-ganatra)
- [Ajay Naidu](https://cinepixo.com/people/ajay-naidu)
- [Nick Chinlund](https://cinepixo.com/people/nick-chinlund)
- [Jill Hennessy](https://cinepixo.com/people/jill-hennessy)
- [Sakina Jaffrey](https://cinepixo.com/people/sakina-jaffrey)

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