âTribhangaâ (the last âGaâ is pronounced, but not with a long âaaâ sound), an Oddisi dance pose that is crooked and asymmetrical, represents Kajol here. The product of a wholly dysfunctional family, Anuradha Apte is âmooh-phutâ (blunt), good at heart, a believer in God despite a troubled life, and mercurial.
Her problems stem from a traumatic childhood in which her writer-mother Nayantara Apte (Shweta Mehendale) has left her husband (unknown actor) because her obsession with and success as a writer led to a certain neglect of home and childrenâborn, we are later informed, sans passion. The boy is Robindro (Vaibhav Tatyawadi as adult).