COUNTERFEIT KUNKOO

In a city overflowing with buildings and slums, Smita discovers a strange prerequisite to renting a house in middle-class Mumbai. She is hard-working, honest and respectful, she would make an ideal tenant, except for one glaring flaw: she is an Indian woman without a husband.

A quirky tale about a married woman’s struggle to rent a place of her own that pertinently draws attention to the daily humiliations many Indian women face at home and in the world. Kani Kusruti, conveying volumes through her silence, is stellar as the resilient lead of Reema Sengupta’s short film.