All We Imagine as Light
Prabha is a nurse in a busy hospital in Mumbai's metropolis of millions. She works, sometimes seeing her good friend Parvaty; not much else happens. One day, however, her world is turned upside down when she receives a gift in the mail from her husband: a rice cooker. Not so strange, you would think, were it not for the fact that the husband left for Germany shortly after the wedding ceremony. Since then, she has heard little from him. In that same hospital, her younger roommate Anu works. The latter is having a secret love affair with a Muslim boy, which goes against everything her parents care about. Time to leave the city for now.
Mumbai is city full of friction and tension; between ethnic groups, religions and between the sexes, as director Payal Kapadia shows in this nuanced and feminist drama, her first feature film. She won the Grand Prix with it at Cannes. Starring Kani Kusruti and Divya Prabha.
