The film is a wonderful take on the various aspects of love - thrill, cheating, stability and boredom - from the point of a view of a housewife in a middle-class, nineties household. The narrative does a notable job of using a mundane object, a pressure cooker, to comment on the dynamics of a marriage. <br><br> Swati, who feels neglected by her husband, while also struggling with an old pressure cooker, finds herself considering different options and newer alternatives. She soon finds herself tempted by an automatic pressure cooker, a fancier product of an era that was beginning its tryst with modernisation. However, between temptation of novelty and the stability of familiarity, what will she choose?

Pressure cooker | Pallavi Joshi, Mukul Chadda | Short Film of the Day

The idea of the narrative is to explore the question of women’s presence in public spaces, as well as their location in society. The approach remains marked by women from all over the country reciting lines into the camera, each of them questioning how their safety and security have been left at the mercy of a predominantly sexist society which still remains indifferent to their woes. Central to all of these ideas and their articulation is the question - am I safe? <br><br> 
As the title of the short video is realized within the narratorial progression, its intentions are presented to the viewer in a lucid manner, all along adhering to its core intentions. The weaving of the different visuals exhibits a little inconsistency, however, in its texture and overall flow, perhaps a characteristic that can be smoothened out in the future projects by the team.


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