Girls Will Be Girls

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Girls Will Be Girls

Documenting the evolution of a girl’s adolescence across generations, Shuchi Talati’s first feature film, ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ has its heart touching connect with the audience. Mira (Preeti Panigrahi) is the head teacher of her class. Making history as the first female boarding pupil to be appointed as the head prefect, she takes pride in her prefect’s badge, walking through the corridors of the institution with full poise and satisfaction. Where so when a policy is disregarded on clothing for the institution she is the one required to enforce it while all with a warm smile and a dignified high chin. Naturally, this privileged position makes her the role model of the school, but that quickly turns into an unreasonable onus.

She is additionally assigned the duties of maintaining (and calling for) the school’s traditional boundaries regarding academics and decorum. However, with an inflow of numerous emotions like first feelings of love, social responsibilities, and a troubling mother and daughter relationship, Mira is swept off as she meets Sri (Kesav Binoy Kiron), her international classmate. And when Mira and Sri finally surrender to their feelings, she does so behind closed doors. It is because any form of relationship endorsement is prohibited in the institution, although this applies selectively.

Ms. Bansal, the principal of Bansal School is the epitome of the typical prescription-following tradition.

They are advised, “Be careful of boys. Do not speak too much to them,” and some parents even try to monitor their daughter’s school skirt length, but when the boys push from below to take an upskirt shot as they climb stairs, girls are unfairly the ones blamed. The movie de facto claims to put an end to the perennial argument of “boys will be boys.

Back at home, Sri is introduced as a classmate friend, as Mira’s mother, Anila (Kani Kusruti), discourages the former from falling in love. She also gripes that when Mira\’s studies begin to decline, her husband will come to her. Nevertheless, there is a second layer of her discontent. Anila is the kind of mother who watches our protagonist round the clock and at some point, she goes too far. Mira has some angst and resentment towards Anila which is only compounded when Anila starts to intrude on what is an awkward time in the character’s development.

Girls Will Be Girls is constructed within the parameters of a 4:3 aspect ratio, with a raisin-like quality, and shot in warm and comfortable houses appealing to the audience. Mira’s voice is the main feature in the film, Talati’s direction is intelligent enough to make sure the audience is in her head and remains there. It also draws attention to the minute things of any practically charged contact the clasp of hands, fingers stretching out, quick bat of eyelashes. It is dependably romantic, deeply personal even, as it does cling on to the emotions these little gestures evoke, which for many women, may even be all that matters. Panigrahi, who has won the Sundance Award for Dramatic Special Jury for her role, is simply phenomenal. She Soaks in the vulnerability but stays assertive and self confident even in moments of attack. And even when Pamela Kiron is downright adorable as she transforms commencing giddy affection into flawed love, the chemistry between the two is electric. They are simply that good together on screen.

One’s first sexuality is often a painful experience, and coming of age stories do tend to be topical but this one is certainly more complex because it is a unique account of how unhealed injuries from everybody’s girlhood reside in all women.

Girls Will Be Girls and Vice versa The most insightful materials concerning Anila come from her responses regarding Mira, and the former exhibits a warmth of mother only to be later tainted with feelings of protective jealousy, as Mira appears to have moved through life stronger than Anila ever has. In a heated argument at dinner about marriage, the narrator proposes, why she accepted Mira’s father because the two had sex that was allowed in one of his many marriages that has virtually swelled in areas which didn’t exist before and are now largely dissatisfied with.

There are times, however, when some of Anila’s choices appear painfully aggressive, particularly in ways that stretch the limits of credibility. But intervening through Kusruti’s devoted, moving performance and Talati’s sensitive script, “Girls Will Be Girls, was able to make it through. The screenplay is laced with tender, introspective emotions that make one relish the very first taste of love that Mira herself is just now starting to experience. The film moves along plot wise in a languorous manner, but one suited perfectly to the action. A great deal of arrangement is possible so that there are plenty of spaces in between, allowing the performers to be free with the silences that make the film more powerful than it already is.

The film ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ is about girls but it’s also about girls growing up which is almost always praised the best and most powerfully by Khosromzaye.

It gives rise only to the vexing question of the film’s title what does it mean for girls to be girls? It means being expected and sometimes even punished for exhibiting natural growth stances and even so being able to find strength and independence. This means being at loggerheads with your mother and realizing that she is a woman who had to grow and not the woman who she has always been as you knew her. But Talati’s film does not lacquer its subject matters nor does it romanticize them. On the contrary, it is permanently intertwined with the actual and the immediate.

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