'Parched' is much more than a film

"Parched" is a melancholic yet sunny meditation on feudal mindsets where women are treated as objects of recreation and contempt, to be used and discarded world. It's a brutal life for the childless Lajjo who gets thrashed by her sodden husband regularly, for Bijlee the 'nautanki' sex worker who satisfies masculine lustful urges at the drop of a ghagra.