An Ode to the Saree

An Ode to the Saree is a reminiscence by Parvati Menon (Nayar), the first female student of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), who specialized in Advanced Direction and faced her professional challenges clad in a saree. Until then, direction was considered a man's job. Her then principal's wife, the nonagenarian Mrs. Murari, recalls the institute's reaction to w...