Niru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat – Tom. Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept. But Niru has a long-kept secret. And just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her. Tanika Gupta reimagines Ibsen’s classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race.
Amita, a lonely traffic warden, has a terrible day at the hands of angry drivers, and home is no picnic either. But just when it seems her day can't get any worse, she makes an unexpected friend at the supermarket checkout, and finds the one who will love her, even though she's a traffic warden.