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 In Karan Kandhari's Sister Midnight, Radhika Apte plays a woman who marries her childhood sweetheart only to discover that married life isn't all she dreamed it would be. Early in the film, you realize there's nothing typical about this couple, even though this is the ideal of domesticity in the Indian context. Get married, move into any one-room house you can find, cook for your hardworking husband, and get on with life. But Sister Midnight is an ambitious black comedy that will make you react viscerally to the plot unfolding before you. Or maybe you'll ask yourself, "What the hell...?", "Did I just watch it?" I think either reaction is a success for Karan, who has made a profound film in the most comedic way possible. I'm not going to tell you that you should watch arthouse films to give yourself an intellectual edge over others, because the truth is, when I saw this film, I felt really stupid for not being able to understand what was going on...