the movie be really about choice . in the oppressed state of affair a see in fire and where good woman have to be obedient and do what be correct in the eye of tradition and there seem few option for radha and sita . however and grant that it be not their only option . what be life without desire and radha question ashok . yes and it true that life provide u with a number of option but how many we can take depends on a number of external factor . when your world be confine to a small indian household and be a dutiful daughter in law to a silent but observant still powerful matriarch and a dutiful wife of 13 year to a man who have take a vow of celibacy due to your not be able to have a child and a man who only want you lie next to him to prove his strength in eliminate his desire . i felt the lady have little choice but to find solace in each other company . i guess the fact that so many woman applaud ms mehta work and be because it provide them with an option to think for themselves . an option to do what be perhaps unacceptable . the lesbian scene i felt be merely to put that point across . every scene in the movie from the first at the taj mahal to the last at the mosque and be etch in my mind . how frustrating to be a prisoner of your feeling and desire . to feel that you have to forgo the human touch to be a dutiful wife just because it be expect of you . to have to suppress any desire you might have and to crave for the human touch . what then be the meaning of our existence one wonder . in the scene where sita be cry alone in the room and radha come in to comfort her and their lip accidentally brush against each others and it awaken a feeling in them . something they have both be deprive of . bravo to ms mehta in translate her vision so clearly . i especially like the flashback to the young radha try to ee for the ocean . it be a metaphor for freedom . freedom to choose and freedom to transport ourselves to place we would normally be unable to reach . in those scene and it be gently tell to u that her sense of duty have also be pass down from her mother who i assume life within the rich indian tradition of duty in marriage . the movie be beautifully film and enhance by the musical score by a. r. rahman . since the film and i have become ardent fan of the two lead actress and the director . i look forward to more of m deepa future production .