In the film-maker Payal Kapadia's feature debut, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes, night-time in the city is shown in loving detail, as we see markets, fluorescently lit shops and trains full of women returning from work.
The film follows Prabha, Anu and Parvaty...which is a longstanding interest of Kapadia's her first film, A Night of Knowing Nothing, is a documentary exploring the 2015 student protests against Narendra Modi's appointment of political sympathiser as a university chair.
On two occasions, a phone torch cuts through the dark to reveal words in a notebook, on a cave wall professing great love that feels otherwise impossible to say.
All three stories are concerned with the ways in which politics shapes individual lives, as characters navigate love, loyalty, and gentrification amidst a vibrant Mumbai setting.
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