If we go on to analyse the characters of Tanya and Shanaya together in the last few scenes of the film, something that becomes clear is that Shanaya’s identity remains linked to the men in her life while Tanya’s doesn’t.

While talking to her, Sia realised Meena looked a little worried, she could read her face easily. “All okay with you? Any problem you can always share with me? Did your husband say anything or it is something else?”

It is hard to make family understand that experiments need their own time, and cannot be 'adjusted' for their needs. This is difficult for women who are caregivers or who are expected to sacrifice for the family.

Wearing the hijab may be the only way a conservative family will permit a young woman to go to school, and in those cases, her hijab is her ticket to education.

As if illegally coercing a woman to not abort a foetus was not bad enough, the District Collector has compounded the injustice by forcing the woman to stay with her in-laws till she delivers the baby.