Director
Diksha Jyoti
is pleased with the response her
short film
, 'The Ideal Bride', has garnered online. The story revolves around
Phuleri
, a new bride, who is more than happy to find a corner of her own in her sasural, where she will spend her lifetime ' the kitchen.
Ironically, she doesn't realise that she will grow claustrophobic within the four walls. The film exposes the constraints imposed on Indian women by a modern world. Filmmaker
Sriram Raghavan described it as 'A prison and escape story set in an Indian kitchen. An evocative tableaux of a typical Indian marriage, with a sting in the tale.' Diksha says, 'While growing up in a joint family in a small town in
Eastern India
, I saw my mother always busy in the kitchen. And then I realised that just like my mom, every family had a woman who would keep slogging silently in the kitchen. They would grow old, waiting for a young bride to take over. This story is born out of every such invisible woman in the far-flung corners of India.'
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