Citation :
« In her bold decision to use the names of Sita and Radha for the lesbian sisters-in-law in her screenplay, Deepa Mehta is not merely secularizing the names of quasi-divine figures, she is making a thoroughly irreverent and contemporary statement about the Great Indian Family tradition. If there is anything that the audience has responded to in her film, I do believe it is the humour that is at once satirical in its attack on bogus Hindu religiosity and morality, but which is also intensely familiar in its grounding within the daily rituals of urban middle-class domesticity. »
-- Rustom Bharucha

Source :
BHARUCHA, Rustom. The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking through Theatre in an Age of Globalization, London, Athlone, 2000. [en anglais] (p. 96)