BLOOD IN THE KITCHEN

RENUKA SHAHANE'S LOOP LINE IS A SOBERING FEMINIST TALE WHICH USES ANIMATION TO GOOD EFFECT

- Shanu Ghosh

In a startling sequence in actor-director Renuka Shahane's animated short film Loop Line, a homemaker makes pakoras out of her brain and serves them to her husband and his friends while they drink and chatter noisily. No, this is not a horror film. Loop Line is the sort of poignant feminist cinema Shahane has honed over her last two features, Rita (2009) and Tribhanga (2021).

Loop Line follows a woman compelled to be voiceless at home, while her indifferent and brutish husband stays blind to her. Titled in Marathi as