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Love, Sitara is a Zee5 Global Original film that explores the story of a family based in Kerala. As the female lead plans to get married to her long-time boyfriend at her hometown, unpleasant secrets start to emerge shortly before the wedding. This is a tale of a dysfunctional family, and there are a few characters in the film and most of them are morally gray.

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Sitara

Sobhita Dhulipala, as Sitara, is a young and successful interior designer who has decided to get married to her longtime boyfriend Arjun. Unbeknownst to anyone, including Arjun, she is pregnant, which is why she’s decided to tie the knot. As she plans to have their wedding at her grandmother’s home in Kerala, she finds herself surrounded by her parents, aunt, neighbors, and her best friend. Sitara’s aunt, Hema Chechi, is her closest confidante, and she considers her to be a role model.

India’s representative at this year’s (virtual) Fantasia International Film Festival was Kriya, written and directed by Sidharth Srinivasan. At a nightclub party, the DJ, a young man named Neel (Noble Luke), ends up hooking up with a girl, who eventually invites him to her house. Soon enough, what seemed like a regular, fun night, turns into something else. Neel finds out that Sitara’s relatives –including her mother Tara Devi (Avantika Akerkar), her younger sister Sara (Kanak Bhardwaj), a friend of the family and their housemaid Magdali (Anuradha Majumder) – are congregated for the patriarch’s last rites. Our protagonist knows something is wrong. Sitara appears to have her own agenda, much like her mother, which makes us...

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