It's a middle-class family. Father works for the government.... well, he collects tickets on the railroad. The older son works in the telecommunications industry and is romantically involved with a co-worker. The younger son is still in school. Grandma lives in the apartment and belittles the mother every chance she gets. And the mother is a housewife who is not feeling too well. She goes to the medical clinic and discovers she is expecting, at an age when they were looking forward to saving some money and retiring, they have to consider abortion.... and she's refusing.
It's not a new theme. There's a good movie version of the Broadway show NEVER TOO LATE and, indeed, the two movies share a lot of the same concerns and even the same jokes. That's hardly surprising, given that some aspects of human life haven't changed much in ten thousand years. Yet every place and age differs, so we are left with the question of whether this movie deals with anything new or in a new manner. Given current Indian governmental pushing towards smaller families, as well as the concurrence of 'the best people' (whoever they may be), yes it does.
It's not a new theme. There's a good movie version of the Broadway show NEVER TOO LATE and, indeed, the two movies share a lot of the same concerns and even the same jokes. That's hardly surprising, given that some aspects of human life haven't changed much in ten thousand years. Yet every place and age differs, so we are left with the question of whether this movie deals with anything new or in a new manner. Given current Indian governmental pushing towards smaller families, as well as the concurrence of 'the best people' (whoever they may be), yes it does.