Dear Latika

DEAR LATIKA, is a story about a girl who was destroyed by the people who loved her. Latika is a nave, cheerful, regular girl, one of billions of girls who have absolutely no exposure to love, to have sex, to keep a male friend before marriage because they are raised to be a ‘good girl’. But the same girl is expected to miraculously become a sex goddess overnight when she gets married. People keep making decision for Latika. There is a husband who doesn’t want her but would not let her go because it might stain the family’s reputation. There is a mother who would not keep her because it will stain her family’s reputation. Then there is Mayank, who perhaps loved her but didn’t care whether she feels the same. And there is Latika, who is fighting it all in her own way. But would that be enough?