Ray

The work portrays the masks that emigrants in the UK (in this case, from India) have to wear to cover their experiences and to assure their families in their original country that everything is settled and as it should be.
This portrayal is often differently experienced by the emigrant, who may have ambivalent feelings, about the process.

I was interested to give the interviewer an acting part, where she doesn’t need to act, even if she uncomfortably sits when given the freedom to just be herself. The song, from a popular Indian film from 1958 (Solva Saal), about a vagabond heart, is sang by her husband and comforts her. His heart is there, and with it, her country and culture.