Saali Mohabbat: Tisca Chopra makes a wickedly fun directorial debut

Saali Mohabbat: Tisca Chopra expands the themes and flavours of her short film Chutney in this feature film, now streaming on Zee5.

Actor Tisca Chopra 's directorial debut, Saali Mohabbat, evokes a feeling of déjà vu, like the aftertaste of a certain dish whose name we can't recall. But it's a lingering memory of something strong and uncommon. The answer lies within the context itself, as Saali Mohabbat seems to have grown from the same seed that came in the form of a short film, Chutney, a few years ago. Tisca played the lead role of a woman who knows more than she shows in that sinister little film, a trait that is shared by the protagonist of her feature film here, Smita, played by Radhika Apte.

But what made the short film so memorable was the way the details were never spoon-fed t