In Soni, one woman tells her colleague that PritamвЂ™s memories may be the raft that helps her make sense of unreasonable, unseasonable things. What experiences can a woman have that are worth writing about, PritamвЂ™s male friend had told her. Seated at her work station, she opens the book to read, until a call comes through. The closing sequence of the film shows the younger woman in her new posting, the Delhi PoliceвЂ™s call helpline, a punishment posting for her. The title of the book is a story in itself: a male writer had once told Pritam that her own story would not fill a book, it could be something that could be written on the back of a rasidi ticket (revenue stamp), the older woman tells her younger colleague. Towards the end of the film, the senior officer, wealthier, better educated and more worldly, hands her younger angrier subordinate the memoir of the Punjabi writerAmrita Pritam, Rasidi Ticket. One week before ManikarnikaВ opened, Netflix India released the independent film Soni, the story of two women police officers negotiating the savage misogyny of Delhi. вЂњIвЂ™ve wanted to read this book for a long time,вЂќ she tells him, and it is evident from the purr in her voice that she is seduced. He takes her to his library, pulls down a volume and she gasps. The king of Jhansi (played by Jisshu Sengupta) seduces her with a book. The trailer underlined the notes of this familiar story, of an unusually confident and martial 19 thВ century queen who set out to avenge her husbandвЂ™s humiliation by the British.

The film is a biopic on the well-known historical figure Rani Laxmibai, a heroine of our high-school history. There is a moment in ManikarnikaВ that nothing had prepared me for. The gift of an Amrita Pritam book in Soni feels like a little revolution.

Amrita pritam rasidi ticket