Lost Ladies: Finding My TIFF 23 Winner
by Priya Chopra
Lost Ladies is a comedy-satire where two brides are mixed up on the train. Set in the early 2000s when there were mobile phones, but not so much cell phone towers in India is important to understanding why the two brides remain lost for quite some time. The ghoonghat was the traditional veil that covered the face of a newly minted bride, so the groom, Deepak (Sparsh Shrivastava), takes the wrong bride to his village. Jaya (Pratibha Ranta) and Phool (Nitanshi Goel) are the two brides who get mixed up, or laapataa as one would say in Hindi. Upon reaching, Deepak and his family realize the truth, and the story unfolds with both brides.