| Author(s) | Year | Focus | Relevance to “Mere Angane Mein” | |-----------|------|-------|---------------------------------| | Gokulsing & Dissanayake | 2013 | Indian cinema’s myth‑making | Provides a baseline for interpreting familial mythic structures. | | Chakravarty | 2015 | Gendered spaces in Bollywood | Highlights how the home traditionally functions as a patriarchal symbol. | | Dwyer & Patel | 2020 | OTT impact on narrative form | Explains the shift toward fragmented storytelling on streaming platforms. | | Banerjee | 2022 | Post‑colonial urban identity | Offers a framework for reading urban domesticity as a site of cultural hybridity. | | Roy & Singh (eds.) | 2024 | Women’s agency in contemporary Indian film | Directly informs the analysis of female protagonists in the film. |
The central residence—a multigenerational townhouse in Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar—functions as a palimpsest, bearing layers of memory and authority. Early shots position the courtyard as a , where the matriarch (Smt. Meera) presides over family rituals. The use of soft, diffused lighting here evokes warmth but also a sense of enclosure. As the narrative progresses, the same space is progressively re‑lit with harsher, cooler tones , reflecting the encroachment of modern values and the protagonist’s (Riya, a 28‑year‑old software engineer) attempts at self‑definition. mere angane mein part 01 2025 ullu wwwmoviespa