Abida struggles to amplify the voice and the right to equal love for her daughter Duaa, in a family that shuns the girl child.
Acting
Esha Deol's restrained devastation speaks volumes.
Direction
Mukherjee packs a feature's worth of grief into 19 minutes.
Director
Ram Kamal Mukherjee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for ZEE5's anthology on female infanticide, this short sparked renewed debate on India's declining child sex ratio.
The 19-minute runtime was deliberate — Mukherjee wanted audiences to feel the suffocation of a life compressed by patriarchy.
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