Shuchi Talati masterfully constructs a story that explores hardships of being a developing girl craving to experience adulthood in her late teen years, while struggling with the reality of being an academic prodigy and a feeling of resentment for her mother.
Talati isn't afraid to portray the sexuality of women of colour in her story; the characters of Mira, Anila and Priya work as examples of the scrutiny and backlash that women of all ages face for exteriorizing their wish to be agents of their own sexual and affective presences. Cleverly, she manages to manipulate the audience into assuming the worst of the mother figure while making them like the male character, only for the expectations to be subverted by the resolution of the film.
Shuchi Talati masterfully constructs a story that explores hardships of being a developing girl craving to experience adulthood in her late teen years, while struggling with the reality of being an academic prodigy and a feeling of resentment for her mother.
Talati isn't afraid to portray the sexuality of women of colour in her story; the characters of Mira, Anila and Priya work as examples of the scrutiny and backlash that women of all ages face for exteriorizing their wish to be agents of their own sexual and affective presences. Cleverly, she manages to manipulate the audience into assuming the worst of the mother figure while making them like the male character, only for the expectations to be subverted by the resolution of the film.
