A relief to see an emotional film about a woman's journies laced with a woman's voice and a woman's telling of it. Pratima joshi has done a lovely job in bringing out the emotions of this take of the relationship between a step mother and a step daughter. But more than that even it's a take of a woman breaking free really of the effect of a hard fatherhood and the inheritance that has left on her. We get to see the mind and heart of woman bereft of a mother's touch in her upbringing and also how she ends up becoming her father, a man she almost hated. And then escapes his fate by a hair's breadth thanks to her step mom. Priya Bapat shines. And so does Mukta Barve. Both women playing ages at times which are far removed from their own. Priya doesn't ever overdo the young part even though she's playing what seems like a 15 year old at times. And Mukta is so unassuming I kept wishing I'd see more of her.
