As someone who doesn't know a ton about cricket, I ended up learning a lot about both the sport, and the Indian culture at large, after watching this documentary. It differs a lot from the traditional Western sports narrative of "the player/team" trying to win and instead focuses on one woman's struggle to find acceptance from her family as she pursues her dream, proving in the process that while borders are arbitrary and man made, the human struggle is a universal condition.
Review of Purdah
