A humming word

There are few movies that will tear you up and there are fewer movies that take a dose from reality and do that and that’s the movie: Tumhari Sulu , played perfectly by Vidya Balan. The movie will remind you of someone: our own personal Sulu. We all know a Sulu amongst us. A mother. A sister. A wife. Or could be any woman you know who moulds her life as per her family responsibilities.   Yes. Yes. Men are great and are equally wonderful.   But just focussing on Sulu here. The quintessential mother or any responsible person who wakes up at 5:30 am and carries on her chores, unquestionably. Be it rain or hail. Her clockwork avatar is difficult to emulate. Try waking up at 5:30 am for a couple of days knowing the pile of responsibility apart from work and you’d be shaken. But for Sulu it is the norm. But with a difference. She has the zeal and the zest to do something. She makes daal with equal fervour as she makes love. She plays lemon and spoon with the same focus a...

The series has been heavily criticized for portraying feminism as a parade of alcohol, fornication, and independence beyond check. But the series is about four women with different problems and they meet once a week at “The Truck Bar” run by Jeh Mehta, who is their confidante too. The series unravels to focus on many modern problems such as sexuality, polyamory, indecisiveness about marriage, open marriage, truth in relationships, divorce, custody, remarriage, misogyny. One cannot brand it under umbrella when it is dealing with several problems. However, what stood out through the series for me was the unyielding strength every character showed. Especially, Umang Singh. Umang Singh, a physical trainer who is into multiple hookups until she finds herself and the true love that she craves for. She is openly bisexual; however, she hides it from her family back in Chandigarh.   Umang’s journey is the journey of many women and men in India who have to hide their orientation fro...