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Lailaa Manju

53 min

A warm, wry look at a mother's panic that plays like a gentle comedy of manners with real emotional stakes.

Directed by
Kamya Nair
Starring
Shilpa Tulaskar, Sagar Deshmukh, Suhas Joshi
Tagline
A coming out film for the times we're living in.
Overview
Laila and Manju have been going out for what seems like a lifetime, but Manju’s mother, Poornima, has only just learned about it. In an absurd combination of FOMO, identity crisis and alienation, Poornima worries that her daughter may not be ‘normal’. Was this a result of her laissez faire parenting? Or had the world moved on without her?

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Directed by
Kamya Nair
Starring
Shilpa Tulaskar, Sagar Deshmukh, Suhas Joshi
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • family
  • parenthood
  • sexuality
  • love
Places
  • home
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Directed by
Kamya Nair
Starring
Shilpa Tulaskar, Sagar Deshmukh, Suhas Joshi, Tanvi Lehr Sonigra, Mansi S Puggal
Runtime
53 min
Languages
Hindi

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