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Movie review 'Parched'

Set in a fictitious village called Ujhaas in rural India, the narrative concentrates on three friends; Rani (Tannistha Chatterjee) a young widow, Lajjo (Radhika Apte) an apparently barren woman who can't conceive and Bijlee (Surveen Chawla), a dancer-cum-prostitute. They live in a tightly controlled universe, hemmed in by tradition, but in their private spaces, they experience freedom by talking about love, sex and their dreams for the future.