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Director: Sangetta Datta With Sharmila Tagore, Girish Karnad, Om Puri
SET IN present-day London, this moving drama introduces us to Dr Banerjee, his three daughters and family friend Alok, as the family prepares for the funeral of the doctor’s wife Manju. Never maudlin or sombre, despite its Shakespearean overtones, Datta employs the lightest of touches as she sketches in the daughters’ cosmopolitan lifestyles (one is a lesbian, one pregnant by her Muslim boyfriend). A fine debut that shows tolerance really can bring people together – particularly apt in the light of recent events.
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