Synopsis
Writer-director Payal Kapadia’s fiction feature debut, the Grand Prix winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, centers on the lives of two nurses in Mumbai, roommates Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha). Their relationships with men prove a source of drama. The middle-aged Prabha is estranged from her husband who has long worked abroad, but she has attracted an unexpected suitor. The younger Anu is secretly dating a Muslim boy. When they accompany a friend on a trip to the beach, they take the occasion to fully express their desires. “For all the rapturous visuals,” wrote Robyn Citizen for the Toronto International Film Festival, “nothing in this heartfelt film is more striking than seeing Prabha and Anu forging their connection.”