Where the goddess Durga is worshipped but where some women don’t have a choice in matters concerning their lives: director Modhurima Sinha examines this conundrum in her Bengali short film The Third Eye.

The film is set in an affluent and seemingly perfect household. When the wife gets a dream job offer, she has her husband’s support, but she has to face stiff opposition from her mother-in-law. Will she succumb to the pressures and abandon her dream or stick to her resolve?

Sreenanda Shankar and Koushik Roy play the doting couple well, displaying fine chemistry in the quieter moments when no words are exchanged.

It is through the antics of the boy that some of the film’s core ideas are powerfully expressed. The boy’s Lego structure crumbles in the middle of an intense conversation between his parents and grandparents, signifying the rupture in their relationship. Similarly, he catches on to the words rape, time and news from their conversation and repeats them innocently, which leads to a dramatic denouement.