Supreet Kaur’s film ‘Bloomer Panties’: An ode to the parallel, free woman
The first-ever Punjabi pick for TorinoFilmLab’s Next Feature Film, it asks what a girl’s period takes away
Updated At : 07:04 AM Oct 01, 2026 IST
Supreet Kaur’s films, much like her understanding of the world around her, exist in the grey.
As a child in Jalandhar’s labyrinthine suburbia, filmmaker Supreet Kaur wanted nothing more than to be a cricketer. “Everything was about cricket, I would wake up at 5 am to play cricket,” she recalls, a faint glimmer in her eyes. For a brief beautiful stretch, the rules of cricket were the only rules that mattered. Then, as the men in blue lifted the 2011 World Cup trophy, came her first period.
