Subhash K Jha refocuses the lens on the Aishwarya Rai drama, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, the battered wife Paula keeps justifying her bruises by saying she, as a habit, walks into closed doors and hurts herself.

The battered wife Kiranjit in Jagmohan Mundhra’s Exposed jolting expose on domestic values never gets a chance to walk in or out of that closed London door where she lives with her brutal husband. She chooses her husband’s death over her own exit.

It’s amazing how the true-life Kiranjit Ahluwalia found freedom by setting her brutal husband on fire. In one of the film’s most sensitively delineated dialogues, Kiranjit says to her rather overly benign prison mates, “I’ve never felt freer in my life.”

What sort of trauma would it take for a woman to feel free in prison? Provoked answers the complicated question of domestic disharmony...