Parched

Movie Review
Release on: Jun 17, 2016

Movie name	:	Parched
Genres	:	Drama
Run time	:	116 min
Produced by	:	Ajay Devgan
Directed by	:	Leena Yadav
Music by	:	Hitesh Sonik
Writers	:	Supratik Sen, Leena Yadav
Cinematography	:	Russell Carpenter
Countries	:	India, UK, USA

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Stars : Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Lehar Khan, Priyanka Khan, Dinesh Pradhan, Farrukh Jaffar, Kanwar Jagdish, Riddhi Sen, Tarun Jasor, Praveen Choudhary, Prince Gehlot, Nancy Nisa Beso, Anuradha Adwani, Sumeet Vyas, Ramesh Ji, Sayani Gupta, Shyam Panwar, Shilpi, Pooja Joshi, Kusum Awasthi, Hansa Tiwari, Kavita, Neelu Pathak, Ajay Gehlot, Bharat V., Manohar, Naveen Borana, Kamla Devi, Deepak Gawde, Chandan Anand, Surveen Chawla, Karandeep Singh, Daddi Pandey, Mahesh Balraj, Devendra, Chetan Sharma, Adil Hussain, Tanya Sachdeva, V.N. Sharma, Manish

Story : 'Parched' is a story about women set in the heart of parched rural landscape of Rajasthan, India. It traces the bittersweet tale of four ordinary women Rani, Lajjo, Bijli and Janaki. We see them unapologetically talk about men, sex and life as they struggle with their individual boundaries to face their demons and stage their own personal wars.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Leena Yadav's Parched takes you into a disturbing and thought-provoking territory. Even as it cleverly intertwines the stories of the three protagonists all of who have had a raw deal in life, it simultaneously puts the spotlight on how there is still an India where a woman is treated as a sex object; where her only role is to serve her man. Rani who was married off at 15 to an alcoholic Shankar has been widowed for 17 years and has to fend for herself and her callous son.
Lajjo, a village beauty, is declared 'barren' by her drunken husband and is subjected to physical abuse each day. Lajjo and Rani often seek solace in each other's company. When they get a break from making handicrafts, their rozi-roti, they bond with a sex worker called Biji (Surveen), who's had it rough for no fault of hers. The common ground for their bonding is a need for love, sex and compassion in that order.

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