Parched

Meena Iyer

Parched is a roadmap for our oppressed female population who have been victims of a misogynist mindset for eons.Tannishtha and Radhika are terrific, but it is Surveen who your heart bleeds for. ( Read More )

Parched is a roadmap for our oppressed female population who have been victims of a misogynist mindset for eons.Tannishtha and Radhika are terrific, but it is Surveen who your heart bleeds for. ( Read More )

Alissa Wilkinson

And yetwho knows.Abusive monsters exist everywhere; being raised a culture deeply steeped in misogyny makes those behaviors acceptable, even marks of masculinity. ( Read More )

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Writer and director Leena Yadav has created an explosive portrait of gender inequality and female empowerment. ( Read More )

Simon Abrams

Courtesy of TIFF You can see flashes of bawdy comedic brilliance sprinkled throughout Parched, an otherwise grim Indian drama about four women living in a male dominated village.Too bad writer director Leena Yadav only infrequently uses innuendo driven sex talk to break up a monotonous series of confrontations between misogynistic alpha males and their unhappy wives. ( Read More )