Mother-in-law from hell meets unexpected savior in this claustrophobic rebellion.
Follows Fauzia, whose mother-in-law Ruxana keeps her captive. She will discover that everything she had been told about her husband Ali was a lie and loses hope until she met Laurie.
Acting
Geetanjali Kulkarni's Ruksana is terrifyingly banal evil.
Direction
Molla frames domestic spaces as psychological prisons.
Writing
The Ali revelation lands like a gut punch you don't see coming.
Director
Rumana Molla
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Molla wrote this after interviewing South Asian women in arranged marriages; the 'minimum' refers to the legal dowry threshold that traps many.
Naseeruddin Shah filmed all his scenes as Sukhdeep in one day, improvising the monologue about his own arranged marriage that wasn't in the script.
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