Edge of Desire the - Tapa blanda

When journalist Shruti Ranjan, newly-wed wife of the Deputy Commissioner of Kishanganj in the lawless Bihar of the 1990s is brutally raped by a politically sheltered local goon all of her attempts at getting justice are crushed by a corrupt and complicit state government. That s when the charismatic Sharad Malviya, a leading member of the Opposition party, offers her an unlikely solution: his party s ticket to contest the Lok Sabha elections. Left with little to choose from, Shruti agrees, only to realize that being catapulted to an enviable position of power in an all-man s world comes at a price. Caught between her mentor and her spouse both upright but ultimately flawed men and a host of envious others who continue to cast aspersions on her character, she struggles to address the larger problems of the country. Taunted for being a Draupadi she makes the curse her identity and resolutely fights her fate...