Leela

Leela is a 2002 drama film directed by Somnath Sen. The movie stars Dimple Kapadia and Deepti Naval. The film's story is loosely based on Summer of '42. The film premiered at Reel World Film Festivalm, Toronto, in 2005. It also was featured in the 2002 edition of the IAAC Film Festival, conducted by the Indian diaspora, which works to showcase the Indian films to the West. Plot Leela is a professor from Bombay. Married to a popular poet, her life has always been prefixed with the title 'Nashaad's wife'. She wins a chance to be sent as a visiting professor to California, where she rediscovers herself, the woman she is, beyond the duties of a wife that she had always devoted her life to. Kris comes as a bright sunshine in her life, who makes her realise her own desires, the desires of the body. Is it going to be an happily ever after fairy tale? Or another Bollywood melodrama? Cast Dimple Kapadia as Leela Deepti Naval as Chaitali Amol Mhatre as Kris/ Krishna Vinod Khanna as Nashaad Gulshan Grover as Jai Brendan Hughes as Summer Kelly Gunning as JC Garrett Devereux as Chip Kyle Erby as Jamaal Michelle Van Wagner as Jennifer Sarayu Rao as Mira Partha Dey as Shantanu Sandeep Walia as Harsh Delna Rastomjee as Joya Chatterjee Gargi Sen as Maheed Music "Champai Dhoop Ke Saye" - Shubha Mudgal "Dhuan Uttha Hai" - Jagjit Singh "Jaag Ke Kaati Raina" - Jagjit Singh "Jabse Kareeb Ho Ke Chale" - Jagjit Singh "Jabse Kareeb Ho Ke Chale v2" - Jagjit Singh "Kanha Teri Bansuri" - Falguni Pathak, Dev Choudhury, Karsan Sagathia, K.K. "Mavan Te Dhiyan" - Jaspinder Narula "Tere Khayal Ki" - Jagjit Singh