<strong>Starring Deepti Naval, Farouq Shaikh, Swara Bhaskara</strong> <strong>Directed by Avinash Kumar Singh</strong> <strong>Rating: ***</strong> There is something enormously heartwarming about a mother-daughter film where the two actresses playing the roles look naturally comfortable together. For debutant director Avinash Kumar Singh, casting Deepti Naval and Sawara Bhaskara in the key roles is half the battle won.

While the two highly-controversial epic motion pictures Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children and Kamal Haasan’s <em>Vishwaroop</em> vie for a high-profile viewership this Friday there is another much smaller far more intimate and domesticated battle at the movies, both brought on by first-time directors who enter the portals of middleclass homes to explore the inner and outer spaces that working-class characters occupy on any given day.