Konkona Sen Sharma’s terrific debut feature A Death In The Gunj gave us a specific time, place, atmosphere, and a young man’s steady erosion of self because of the bullying he faces. Vikrant Massey plays Shutu, a sort of hanger-on, poor relative, to an entitled bunch of holidayers– Ranvir Shorey, Tillotama Shome, Jim Sarbh, Gulshan Devaiah, Kalki Koechlin– who come visiting a friend’s home in McCluskieganj in Bihar (now Jharkhand) in 1979; the parents are played by the wonderful pair of Om Puri and Tanuja. I really can’t single out a performance because each one is just so good; if I close my eyes, I flash back to Massey, still a relative newcomer in 2016, and his flawless turn. Alankrita Srivastava’s Lipstick Under My Burkha was also a film filled with the texture of the place it is set in. Four women in Bhopal, different circumstances, struggling with difficult circumstances. Ratna Pathak Shah, Konkona Sen Sharma, Ahana Kumar, Plabita Borthakur work well together to break the patriarchy. Ayushmann Khurrana and Kriti Sanon in Bareilly Ki …