Sister Midnight

Writer-director Karan Kandhari’s feature debut is a surreal, punkish and distinctive comedy. 

Newly arrived in Mumbai, acerbic Uma (a terrific Radhika Apte) and soft-spoken Gopal (Ashok Pathak) are trapped in a very new, very awkward arranged marriage. At first, Uma does her best to cope, but the nocturnal world of the city changes her. Transformed into a disturbing and ruthless figure, Uma succumbs to her most feral impulses. With tightly framed compositions that recall Wes Anderson’s work, and anarchic sequences of stop motion animation, Sister Midnight follows a woman fighting patriarchal norms.