Hyderabad, April 4 -- Mainstream cinema is designed to be accessible and satisfying. Experimental cinema often resists that. It may feel confusing and slow. That discomfort is intentional - it pushes us toward more reflection. 

We know that growth rarely happens within comfort zones and many techniques that are mainstream today originated in experimental cinema: nonlinear storytelling, unconventional editing and blurring genres. So, we know that today's "strange" becomes tomorrow's "standard."

I found Nidhi Saxena's film "Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman" a rewarding watch, firstly and simply, for reminding me of this lovely song capturing a child's longing for her parent to come home:

It gives us a glimpse of the story in which ...