Internal Panic
As the three friends age, they enter life stages separate from one another. With their respective men, or in Chila's case her career, they drift apart from one another. There arises a need to put on a front, to keep up appearances. For Sunita this means covering up how trapped she feels in her marriage and how unrewarding motherhood has been for her because Akaash gives her no credit and nobody sees the difficulties. Each of the women experience a sort of internal panic, which remains entirely private. They cannot confide in their men, who are often the source of some of the trouble. Similarly society prevents them from reaching out to one another because distance and decorum prohibit such candid conversations.
Achievement
Tania, Sunita, and Chila are all high achievers. As women, they have a great deal to prove in this modern era where women are expected both to be mothers and homemakers as well as to hold down successful careers. This split role, while appealing to the women, places them under a lot of stress. Their eagerness to achieve is reflected by material achievement in status symbols like attractive husbands and high-paying jobs, but it comes at a cost of personal satisfaction. With a constant need to achieve, the friends have little time leftover to care for themselves or to work toward any kind of personal development in a meaningful way.
Loss In Growing Up
Friends since childhood, Sunita, Tania, and Chila are able to observe in one another how adulthood has effected them. The most pronounced difference is that they don't remain such close friends as they used to be. The demands of adulthood drive them to different cities and different families so that remaining in close contact is especially challenging. More significantly, each of the girls feels this loss of intimacy with one another strongly. In their youth they enjoyed a kinship, but now they are isolated individuals in the midst of families and workforces which don't see them as valuable or know them well like their old friends used to.
