To find a film like this from the s, made by a man, would be one thing; to find it made in by Mira Nair is more startling. Nothing in her previous work the great film "Salaam Bombay! The heroine is a servant girl named Maya Indira Varma , who has always lived in the shadow of her childhood friend, the well-born Princess Tara Sarita Choudhury , from "Mississippi Masala''. When Tara is betrothed to the king, Raj Singh Naveen Andrews , Maya slips into his chamber on the night before the wedding and seduces him. The next day she taunts her rival: "All my life I have lived with your used things. Now something I have used is yours forever.

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If you've binged every available episode of the hit Disney Plus series, then we've got three picks to keep you entertained. Get some streaming picks. Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes, habits, and hobbies are the same.