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An attractive woman, Meera, moves into a middle-class housing complex and becomes the centre of attention. Amid disapproval and gossip owing to her bold lifestyle, she forms a friendship with a teenager, Bharat. As a salacious secret about her tumbles out of the closet, it exposes society’s hypocrisy towards women while teaching an important lesson to the two protagonists. Review: A teenager falling for a glamorous older woman often means a recipe for a risqué outing. But with The Tenant, director-writer Sushrut Jain doles out a heartwarming and engaging tale. It gives one a glimpse of everyday lives, with teenage crushes, inane quarrels among the building’s committee members and residents, what it means for single women to find accommodation in the city, and how married women are denied carnal pleasures and desires. It’s also a story of an unlikely friendship—between a young boy, Bharat Sharma (Rudraksh Jaiswal) and a model-cum-painter and a sultry single woman, Meera (Shamita Shetty). When Meera comes to live in the residential complex, she becomes a subject of gossip for the women, loose talk for the men, and the object of desire for the young boys. A parallel track is about how society won’t forget and let a woman move on from mistakes from another lifetime. Sushrut narrates these with taut and stellar storytelling. Even though you can predict the unfolding