2000, India, DVD, colour, sound, 8 min.
Stinging Kiss is a narrative dealing with sexual desires that remain unaddressed in the popular culture of Bollywood. According to Shah "a typical Hindi film climax has a heroine who has been abducted by the bandit and who is taken to his den where he tries to commit the ultimate atrocity only to be fouled by a hero who comes to save his beloved...turning the formula on its head Chingari Chumma is a quite conceptual fantasy in which the heroines sexual desires takes centre stage".