The cliche Bollywood dialogue goes that a woman is so much more — a daughter, a mother, a wife and so on. But in the case of Nisha Pahuja’s documentary, The World Before Her (TWBH), it would be wrong to watch it as a feminist film; it’s much more. From women who find the secret thrill in using rifle guns, to young Miss India 2011 contenders who find the redundancy in the wearing ‘skimpy clothes’ for the biking round — it captures the contemporary Indian woman who is neither idolised nor demonised but caught in her shades of grey. 

14-year-old-Chinmayee at the Durga Camp Graduation Ceremony