Laaga Chunari Mein Daag
2007, NR, 140 min.
Directed by Pradeep Sarkar, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Jaya Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Abhishek Bachchan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kunal Kapoor, Hema Malini.

Not reviewed at press time. The eldest daughter of an impoverished country family in India moves to Mumbai to earn money to support her family and educate her beloved younger sister. But this girl alone in the big city is forced into making lots of compromises.

This article appears in October 12 • 2007.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.