Dahaad can be analyzed from multiple angles, not simply as a work of fiction, but also as a layered presentation of truth, which is bitter, which is contemporary and also which is very much about the girls of this nation. It is about the bitter truth – that here in India, girls in general are considered as burdens to their families. An independent female is a misfit; it is but an iconoclastic attitude of extreme audaciousness, an oxymoron to the citizenry of modern Bharat, even today.