Seducing Maarya

{{Infobox film

| name = Seducing Maarya

| image = Seducing Maarya - DVD cover.jpg

| caption = DVD cover

| writer = Hunt Hoe

| director = Hunt Hoe

| producer = Hunt Hoe

| music = Janet Lumb
Dino Giancola

| editing = Phyllis Lewis
Hunt Hoe

| cinematography= Michael Wees

| starring = Nandana Sen
Mohan Agashe
Cas Anvar
Vijay Mehta

| released = {{film date|df=y|2000|6|21}}

| runtime = 107 min

| country = India
Canada

| language = English

}}

Seducing Maarya is a 2000 Canadian English drama film directed by Hunt Hoe with Nandana Sen, Cas Anvar, Vijay Metha, Ryan Hollyman and Mohan Agashe playing the lead roles.

The film was screened at the 31st International Film Festival of India and won the best director award at the Newport Beach International Film Festival in 2000.{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/interview/story/20000131-im-not-opposed-to-working-in-mainstream-cinema-says-nandana-dev-sen-779576-2000-01-30|title=I'm not opposed to working in mainstream cinema: Nandana Dev Sen|work=India Today|author-link=Anna M. M. Vetticad|first=Anna M. M.|last=Vetticad}}{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-08-me-17266-story.html|title=A Big Finish for Newport Film Festival|date=8 April 2000|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=8 August 2015}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/181853/Seducing-Maarya/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141119050450/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/181853/Seducing-Maarya/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 November 2014|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Jonathan Crow|date=2014|title=Seducing Maarya|accessdate=8 August 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://www.headweb.com/en/126845/seducing-maarya;jsessionid=49E6515CCE97A2088F735D93FFBB0A7B.web4|title=Seducing Maarya|publisher=Head Web|accessdate=8 August 2015}}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}