Behind Biplab Goswami’s comedy of errors, ‘Laapata Ladies’

To make a film is to tell a story, and when it's a cumulation of collective consciousness, to find common social grounds, values, and ordinary yet telltale stories that create the base of development of human thought and psyche is a perfect example of a much needed social and cultural commentary.

Creating a visual story, with the intention to attract and aware people from all walks of life is difficult. However, to persist on this thread of storytelling in a varied cultural landscape like India, where poverty, social injustice, cultural stigma, and gender discrimination loom over, is more than challenging.

With Kiran Rao on her first directorial chair, the critically and commercially acclaimed comedy-drama film "Laapata Ladies" does it all. What is more intriguing is the mind of Bengali screenwriter Biplab Goswami, who had put a story known to all on a Bihar landscape with subtle nuances and weights put on two distinguishably different women in a patriarchal backdrop.