Director Diksha Jyoti on her short film 'The Ideal Bride'

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.'