Alia Bhatt and Soni Razdan are opening up about “ Difficult Daughters ,” their family collaboration that is being presented at Busan’s Asian Project Market . The mother-daughter duo share fresh details about their vision for the project, which is adapted from Manju Kapur’s acclaimed novel and currently in financing.

Set across two timelines, “Difficult Daughters” follows Virmati, the eldest of ten in a conservative Punjabi family in 1940s Lahore, who defies convention in her pursuit of education and love, only to find herself trapped after becoming the second wife of a married professor. In 2022, her granddaughter Simar faces a failing marriage and a secret affair; discovering Virmati’s hidden past forces her to confront her estranged mother, Ila. The narrative links pre-Partition In

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