Shot in an isolated village of India, where 15-year-old girls are used as temptresses and are married, the women are blamed of infertility (and not the lazy sperm), where widows live a colorless life with no meaning to their lives and prostitutes are treated like trash.
Leena Yadav’s upcoming film “Parched” has all the right notes to shake you up and fill you with the reality that a urbane modern woman might never be able to face.
Tanishtha Chatterjee plays ‘Rani’, a widow, RadhikaApte plays Lajjo, who is a barren, SurveenChawla is shown to be Lajjo’s close friend ‘Bijli’. Bijli plays the role of a prostitute in the film and a 15 year old Janaki, who cuts of her thick mane just to stop her wedding.
What happens when these 4 women decide to run away from their lives- gaining their strength and empowering themselves leaving behind their cowardice.
https://youtu.be/pcVwe7W1brY
By: Archa Dave
