Kho Kho (2021)

Director Rahul Riji Nair's fourth film is also his fourth to lead with unique female protagonists. In his first, Ottamuri Velicham, we got a moody portrait of a lonely woman stuck in a cold, loveless marriage in an even colder, lifeless terrain. In his second film Dakini, he married comic book quirkiness with the Ramayana, except that Ram here is a 70-year-old woman and her army of pensioners. In his most recent Kallanottam, shot entirely on Go Pro, we witness an intense tug-of-war between two groups of men, both vying to put a price on a woman's honour. Experimental and intriguing, these films introduce us to people we never thought we'll meet in the most peculiar situations.