Divya Delhi: Watching muffled, muted voices try to express themselves in the well-ordered, sparkling-clean setting of an upper-middle-class Delhi household in For Real frequently makes us feel suffocated compulsion longing to be released.Sarita Choudhury's brutally honest Priya Singh Shukla craves liberation. How freeing is it? For her husband and children, she gave up a promising singing career. In Mansoor Khan's Akele Hum Akele Tum, Anuradha meets Manisha Koirala.Now bewildered by modern definitions of success, Priya may forsake her family again to follow her aspirations.We cannot judge Priya's life changes. First-time director Sona Jain's domestic harmony symphony is crisp and subtle. We experience the broken marriage mostly through the eyes of traumatized small child Shruti (Zoya Hassan, heartbreaking in her solemnity and sensitivity), who thinks her mother has been replaced by an alien.Shruti watches her parents argue and her mother flee and return in flashes of the past projected into the peaceful narrative with care.Mother Priya's journey is never romanticized. Her daughter's thoughts of her mother's apparent betrayal never determine maternal morality. This gem's biggest success, I guess. The story does not judge the ambitious family-deserting wife-mom.There are many close-ups. They solely assess the protagonist's feelings, not her conscience. Priya is given life and ember-lit fire by Sarita Choudhury. She intuitively understands her character's hopes and objectives and how they conflict with her domestic duties.Not a likeable woman to play. She portrays the mother with gut-wrenching honesty. We see her with all her defenses down yet astonishingly intact. Her attempts to connect with her moody, distrustful daughter are so charming, you wish there were more.Adil Hussain, the empathic spouse, appears sterile in his marriage.