Director: Priya Thuvassery
Year: 2021
Duration: 28 Minutes
Category: Documentary Short
Language: Hindi with English Subtitles
The Third Eye and Chambal Media present City Girls, a short documentary that spends some time with Umra and Kulsum, who have moved to New Delhi from Banda, UP.
The relationship between small town and city comes through the intimate lives of these young women, navigating a selfhood that the anonymity of a big city produces. The film attempts to deconstruct the image of ‘the city’ and what it means for girls and women brought up in an 'elsewhere’