Margarita With A Straw

Margarita With A Straw – that is how the protagonist likes to drink her new favourite cocktail, what with her cerebral palsy hampering her motor movements. As director Shonali Bose says in her interviews, just because a person is differently abled does not mean that he or she is abnormal. And Bose's lead character has the same angsts and anxieties that most people her age experience, and the same curiosity and need to experiment. This is a coming-of-age movie, with a slightly different perspective than we have been used to thus far.

Laila (Kalki Koechlin) may never have survi....