I enjoyed watching The Mehta Boys last week on Amazon Prime Video. As impressive as Boman Irani and Avinash Tiwary were in their roles, I felt like reaching through my screen and hugging Puja Sarup’s character Anu, a woman stuck not just between two continents, families, and accents, but most unfortunately between her father and brother. Being the first-born daughter, she is now forced to take on the role her mother has played all these years, being the buffer-cum-peacekeeper between the two men in her life. Shreya Chaudhry’s character Zara also plays a similar role, becoming the filling between two slices of toast. Individually they may be great, but when placed together, they only have crumbs of flavour to offer. Is it any surprise then that men often need alcohol to let their guard down with each other? Something to dissolve the need to appear strong and confident, revealing the little boys who grew up watching their fathers constantly being in control emotionally. While we have all grown up hearing that so and so is …