Seducing Maarya
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''Seducing Maarya'' is a 2000 Canadian
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directed by Hunt Hoe with
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,
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, Vijay Metha, Ryan Hollyman and
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playing the lead roles. The film was screened at the
31st International Film Festival of India The 31st International Film Festival of India was held from 10–20 January 2000 in New Delhi. The competitive edition was restricted to "Asian Directors". The follow-up 32nd IFFI edition was cancelled due to interim decision. Winners * Golden Pe ...
and won the best director award at the
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in 2000.


Plot

Vijay Chatterjee, a lonely widower is a successful restaurateur in
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. He hires Maarya, who recently emigrated from
Calcutta Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...
, 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.


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