Pagglait สาวช่างฝัน (2021) [บรรยายไทย]

That free-spirited Sandhya is a misfit in the offbeat yet orthodox household of the Giris is no secret – she has a Master’s Degree in English and likes to pass it down to her brother-in-law, they scream and holler over mounting debts, she keeps a tab – quite frantically – on the comments section of her social media post on her post about her husband. Writer-director Umesh Bist insinuates in the beginning that maybe – just maybe! – Sandhya is grappling with Post Stress Traumatic Disorder (PTSD)but that illusion is shattered soon. “Bilkul rona nahin aah rahaan hain yaar aur bhuk bhi kaske lag rahin hai,” she confides in her frown-inducing friend, Nazia Zaidi (Shruti Sharma).There’s more to the lack of emotion. ‘Paggalit’ is a subtle dig at the societal norms pertaining to the fate of a widow in some parts of India, our obsession with ‘achhuti’ when it comes to proximity with people ‘from that religion’ and how mansplaining and patriarchal mind-set are still so deep seated in some of us.






This social drama also sniggers at the broken ties and loveless relationships we latch on to and maintain, because – of course – ‘log kya kahenge?’

First things first, it is refreshing to see Sanya Malhotra take the centre stage with this one and while she renders an impactful performance as the non-conformist kooky, it is but riddled with flaws. But we will get to that later.