New Delhi, March 9 -- At a party recently, a friend-mother to a teenage daughter-was lamenting that there's barely anything on TV they can sit and watch together. It reminded me of Aamhi Doghi (The Two of Us), a Marathi film I had watched when it released in 2018. Directed by Pratima Joshi, who worked as a costume designer in the Marathi film industry before moving into filmmaking, the movie traces the evolving friendship between a young woman, played by Priya Bapat, and her stepmother, played by Mukta Barve. It is based on short stories by feminist writer Gauri Deshpande, and the movie was wholesome and evocative. I recommended it to my friend to watch with her daughter. Incidentally, my mother was visiting me a week later, so I suggeste...