The House of the Spirits
Choudhury starred opposite Denzel Washington in the 1990 film "Mississippi Masala", for which she received her Screen Actors Guild (SAG) card. She was still working as a waitress in Manhattan's East Village to make ends meet while the film was in theatres. After her debut film "Mississippi Masala" became an art house hit, Sarita Choudhury acted as a Pakistani country-western singer in "Wild West" (1992), a Chilean maid who is raped in Bille August's adaptation of "The House of the Spirits", and a lesbian mother in "Fresh Kill".