“Rashtriy Kheer and Desiy Salad” is a playful and ironic look at the modern Indian family as it imagined itself soon after independence. The film uses excerpts from the 1950s and 1960s recipe books of the artist’s mother and mother-in-law, to create a montage of text, visuals and music between the military notes of the father, a Lt. Colonel in the army, the recipes and domestic notes of the heavily pregnant mother and the school boy son’s homework- all found on the pages of these scrap books.
The title of the film comes from two 1950s Independence Day recipes based on the colours of the Indian flag. It begins and ends with the Indian national anthem. The artist plays the role of the pregnant Mother in the film.