''Seducing Maarya'' is a 2000 Canadian English drama film directed by Hunt Hoe with

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, Cas Anvar, Vijay Metha, Ryan Hollyman and

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playing the lead roles. The film won best director award at the

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in 2000.

Plot

Vijay Chatterjee, a lonely widower is a successful restaurateur in Montreal. He hires Maarya, who recently emigrated from Calcutta, to work in his restaurant. Considering her to be an apt girl for her son Aashish, he gets her to marry him. Thoroughly Westernized Aashish, it turns out is a homosexual. But she plays along, keeping the secret from the elder Chatterjee, so that she can remain in the country. As he realizes the newly married couple are not behaving like one, he decides to teach his son the art of seducing a woman, oblivious to his orientation. He ends up falling in love with her himself. As she is eventually involved with her benefactor and now father-in-law, things get more complicated when Zakir, her jealous knife-wielding brother (and her lover in India), enters their lives and Maarya is found to be pregnant.

Cast

as Maarya *

as Vijay Chatterjee * Cas Anvar as Zakir *Vijay Mehta as Ashish Chatterjee *Ryan Hollyman as Michel *Abhishekananda Singh Birla as Babu *Cecile Cristobal as June Moon *Hunt Hoe as Albert Woo *Xavier Georges as Spike *Todd Moxness as Skip - Band *Kanika Kapoor *Paraish Misra as Young Zakir *Mary Wong as Mother / Baby - Park *Chloe Wong-Mersereau as Mother / Baby - Park *Veena Sharma as Young Maarya

References

External links

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Seducing Maarya
2000 films Films about immigration Films about women in the Indian diaspora Canadian drama films Films about Indian Canadians Canadian LGBT-related films 2000 LGBT-related films LGBT-related drama films 2000 drama films 2000s English-language films 2000s Canadian films {{LGBT-drama-film-stub