@gradwolf @equanimus @J_A_F_B @dagalti Finished watching interview. Yeah it's a keeper :) Initially when he speaks about doing away with the cliches (for example, Plato looks into the chimney and we’d expect her to take him in the way Aavi amala was, but no, no cliches, she comes from an unsuspecting living room), I was reminded of Hitchcock’s interview on doing away with cliches in an interview on North By Northwest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig_7Es1h0eQ). No relations to either plot/location or angles but the idea is quite there :)
Also, the mirroring of an abusive husband beneath their house (reflected subtly in their household, a la JAFB’s reading) is a Ramayana trope :P Ravana kidnaps Seetha and that is mirrored in Vaali kidnapping Ruma. And you do see the old world tropes of compassion and sacrifice of a woman in the midst of abuse (a woman’s place is in her kitchen is quite literally true here, but not in the deeply patriarchal way we’re used to). I like how Mysskin exploits this :)

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