Kathmandu, Feb. 1 -- Once upon a time, there was a woman. She was just starting out in life, realising her dream, building her career. Then she got married. Suddenly, everything became about her husband and her family, and nothing remained of herself-neither her dreams, nor her body. All of us know at least one such woman, and yet somehow her stories were never important enough to be told-especially not in a film. And this is exactly where Panga scores to win.

Panga is about a mother who is waiting for a second chance in life. Director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, on Twitter, dedicated her film to "everyone waiting for their hidden hopes to shine again." Panga is the story of athlete Jaya Nigam, once the Indian women's kabbadi team captain, but ...