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A compelling tale of one woman's struggle to find fulfilment in a society where she's caught between traditional and modern values. Jaya is bound by tradition to take care of her late husband's family, and she takes this responsibility seriously. An engineer and a businesswoman in contemporary India, she is also the mother of a ten-year-old girl. To Jaya's sorrow, no one in her family has room in their lives for her shy daughter, who has cocooned...
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16-year-old PULLAMMA is too dark-skinned to have dreams. For this reason, she's obliged her old-fashioned grandmother by not doing well in school. She's also resigned to remaining unwed; with three girls in the family, there's simply not enough dowry to go around. Then a wedding alliance arrives for her oldest sister-a fair-skinned beauty. There's great rejoicing in their household. And why not? The prospective father-in-law is the right-hand man...
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An unflinching portrayal of contemporary India that explores the tensions between modernity and tradition, urban and rural life, duty and free will. Madhav is a man with an engineering job that pays rather well. He also has a family that consists of a mother who doesn't understand why it is so wrong to demand dowry for her son when she paid out a generous dowry for her daughter; a father who feels so obligated to his beautiful wife for consenting...
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