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This beautiful, emotional film explores female friendship and captures Mumbai's frantic, vibrant atmosphere. This is a quiet drama about fragility, beauty and kinship, and what it takes to keep going in ordinary, difficult times. It centres on the everyday lives of three women and the bonds they share; Nurse Prabha receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband, whilst rebellious Anu carries on a secret romance and widowed Parvaty must deal with eviction from her apartment. When they share a trip to a peaceful coastal village, they find a space to explore their dreams.

 

Payal Kapadia’s hugely acclaimed fiction debut was the first Indian film to be selected in Official Competition at Cannes in three decades, where it was awarded the Grand Prix.

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The Critics Say...

“It’s a film that feels like a long exhale, the moment of unburdening after a tight embrace. It’s beautiful.” Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent *****

“It’s a marvel of a movie, with something of the humanist poetry of Satyajit Ray or Edward Yang. And it’s all the more remarkable given that this is Kapadia’s first fiction feature. What a talent.” Wendy Ide, Observer *****

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"There are a million stories in the naked city, and Kapadia is about to show you three of them in the most delicate, moving way possible. She’s also about to mount a quiet, sneak attack on your soul." David Fear, Rolling Stone

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"Payal Kapadia delivers a memorable and compassionate slice-of-life drama, making a clear statement about the constraints faced by working-class women in India. " Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Empire Magazine ****

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