Ashwini Iyer Tiwari's debut feature, Nil Battey Sannata is a powerful and honest work, completely ahorn of the kind of pretension one sees in a large number of bollywood movies. Swara Bhaskar plays the illiterate maid, chanda who nurses a dream to educater her daughter, Apeksha. Chanda is often frustrated at the girl's attitude who says A maid's daughter can only hope to be a maid, On the verge of giving up on a teenager, who bunks school and can never seem to get a grip over mathematics, Chanda funds an epitome of benevolence in her employer, essayed with superb ease and finesse by Ratna Pathak Shah. She understands the angst of a mother, and moots a plan to fulfil Chanda's dream.
Its not a just a toiching story of a mother and her daughter but also a great chapter on the importance of education. It tells us that a parent's limitations need not stop his/her child too.
