Anusha Nandakumar’s 26-minute film, Boxing Ladies, is thankfully, no Million Dollar Baby. Unlike the 2004 Oscar-winning film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, the three women protagonists, who are National level boxers, don’t need to be ‘rescued’ by the benevolent patriarch in the guise of a rough, tough-talking, but well-meaning ‘gentleman’.

Anusha Nandkumar’s film, Boxing Ladies, is about three teenage sisters, who are National level boxers