Nimisha Sajayan plays an unusual cop in her upcoming film, Babita Singh Reporting. Joining duty in place of her father after his death, Babita is not taken as seriously by her peers as she is mostly delegated paperwork. Everyone calls her by her nickname, “Baby”, and treat her like one too. Even at home, her husband insists that she leaves her job in order to give more time to family. When she goes to her in-laws place, Baby experiences the brutality of patriarchy in everyday life while she obsessively solves the murder of her childhood friend. There are familiar undertones in these scenes to Nimisha’s earlier film, The Great Indian Kitchen, which portrayed the horrors of being a home maker. The actor says that it was challenging to portray Baby’s emotions authentically.“I wanted to bring a certain rawness to the performance,” Nimisha tells The Hindu. “I have seen lots of women, who have shades of Babita, including me. I was just exploring her different shades from Day 1. That was an interesting process; to constantly discover her.”Nimisha instils a vulnerability in her performance that makes the complexity of Baby’s emotions come out meticulously. Baby’s journey with the murder investigation reveals darker truths about the fault lines existing in families. Blending her experience as a women with a story of crime and cops, the film deconstructs power, masculinity and the underlying violence that fractures relationships. It instantly brings to memory the viscerality of Paatal Lok and Kohrra. The mind behind these searing cop-dramas, Sudip Sharma, serves as the executive producer on Babita Singh Reporting.