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Dolly Kitty and Those Twinkling Stars - CinemAsia

The CinemAsia Film Festival in Rialto: the best that current Asian cinema has to offer for five days. From 4 to 8 March.

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Deze voorstelling maakt deel uit van Rialto Filmclub met als gastspreker deze maand Ernst-Jan Pfauth.

Dolly Kitty and Those Twinkling Stars

A lovely family, a hard working husband, and a beautiful new apartment in New Delhi; Dolly (Konkona SENSHARMA) is finally realizing her middle-class aspirations. Meanwhile her cousin Kaajal (Bhumi PEDNEKAR) moves into the city to also try her luck in the sprawling metropole. She does find a job, but it’s in a call center as a romantic conversational partner for lonely men. These cousins, once close as sisters, feel as if something is lacking in their lives.

Indian writer and director Alankrita SHRIVASTAVA (who won the CinemAsia Audience Award in 2016 for her previous hit film Lipstick Under My Burkha) is keen to show how both of them are actually boxed into archetypical roles for women in a patriarchal society. Her latest comedy is an audacious, rousing and constantly surprising film that shows what happens when women refuse to live the lives that are expected of them.

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