Pagglait

Sandhya is widowed five months after her wedding. She returns to the family house for her husband's funeral and the thirteen days of mourning begin. Everyone expects her to cry. She cannot; she feels neither grief nor anger, only wants a cola, and finds herself strangely lightened. Among the relatives filling the house, the arguments about food and the plans for her future, she finds something on her husband's phone and learns what her marriage actually was. Umesh Bist makes comic material of mourning rituals without mocking Sandhya. The real subject of the narrative is that a woman married to a man she never knew is, in being widowed, in a position to make her own decision for the first time. Sanya Malhotra plays Sandhya. The film takes place almost entirely in one house and holds a large ensemble together. Who it's for: Viewers who like Indian independent drama, women-centred narrative, and black humour. Who it's not for: The pace is slow and the plot is thin. The resolution at the end also comes too neatly.