SONGS OF FORGOTTEN TREES REVIEW – SENSITIVE, AMBIGUOUS DRAMA OF FEMALE INTIMACY IN MUMBAI

A sex worker and a call centre employee forge an ambiguous relationship in a film of strong feelings In a tiny crumbling Mumbai apartment two women move around each other, squeezing into the kitchen to cook, or past… The cramped space hems them in – just as society limits their choices.

India | The Guardian reports that a sex worker and a call centre employee forge an ambiguous relationship in a film of strong feelings In a tiny crumbling Mumbai apartment two women move around each other, squeezing into the kitchen to cook, or past…

The report adds: The cramped space hems them in – just as society limits their choices.

That is surely the point first-time director Anuparna Roy is making in a gentle drama set mostly in the apartment about the closeness that develops between the two women.

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