Anupama Chopra sits down with Divya Dutta, director Shashant Shah and writer Divy Nidhi Sharma for InFocus, on the runaway success of Chiraiya - the JioHotstar series that has put marital rape, a subject Indian law has yet to fully reckon with, on dinner tables across the country. Adapted from the Bengali series Sampurna, Chiraiya follows Kamlesh, the dutiful matriarch of a Lucknow joint family, whose certainties begin to crack when she discovers what her younger brother-in-law Arun is doing to his new bride Pooja. For Divya, after more than thirty years and a debut all the way back in 1994's Ishq Mein Jeena Ishq Mein Marna, it is the kind of author-backed leading role she has long been told she was being "under-utilised" for - and the response, she says, has been overwhelming. In a candid conversation, the three unpack the choices that gave the show its reach: Shashant's insistence on a familiar, "less is more" visual grammar so the story could enter homes that don't usually engage with this kind of subject; Divy's refusal to keep the central theme isolated, weaving in throwaway observations on the Indian woman's bladder, on training young boys to escort women to the loo, on the unspeakable vocabulary around menstruation; the deliberate decision to cut on the blade in Pooja's most harrowing scene rather than show what came after; JioHotstar's hands-off backing through six episodes and a single, well-judged note on the final cut; and the online "anti-men" backlash - which, the team points out, has been led by men, written by men and powered, ultimately, by men quietly turning to their wives at the breakfast table to ask if they're really okay.