Delivering a knockout performance as a middle class house wife whose life changes becomes the host of the last night radio show Vidhya balan is the beating the heart of tumhari sulu.
Sulu is force of nature in a cotton sari a happy go lucky homemaker with a ’can-do’ spirit the short of woman whose determined to grab more from life unwilling to be weighed down by her domestic duties or shamed for the facts that she’s the 12th class fail sulu will take shot at anything. Main kar shakti hai she say and charges full steam ahead coming in second in lemon and spoon race in school perents winning home application random contest and dreaming up ambitious buisness plan than she convenced that she can do.
Vidhya imbues sulu with innocent and an infactios optimisum. Sulu love being a mother and wife but that look on face each time she sport her airhostest neighbour is telling of her dreams and ambitions. She’s complmented nicely by manav kaul who plays her lovinv husband Ashok him self stuck in a dead-end jobe but consistently supportive on her need to fly it is her unshakeable confidence that drives her ti badger a redio station boss( Neha dhupiya) into giving her a late night call in show it’s a winning premise and the film director and writer as-man suresh triveni creats the world that is instantly recognisable, giving us a charecter and sceneries that fill authentic some of the best scene involves in sulu’s disapproving older twin sister who constantly berate her for flitting from one hobby to another while stressing that they hold respectable bank jobes themselves. Just watch how they react horror to the news that she chat with lonely caller in the night in the name of job.
Triveni astutely captures the beat of middle class life in suburban mumbai thruogh little scene between sulu and Ashok in lovely throw way momet she complain that she never put on air-conditioning in thei car.