"Dirty Laundry" is second in an ongoing collaboration, between writer Amitava Kumar and filmmaker Sanjeev Chatterjee, exploring the politics of memory in the Indian diaspora. While their previous endeavor, "Pure Chutney", was set in Trinidad, "Dirty Laundry" explores questions of race, nationality, home and belonging through the lens of an Indian visiting South Africa and meeting those people of Indian origin who have accepted their South Africanness in a full embrace. Thus emerges few snippets of an important but heretofore ignored history. A history, as the writer points out in the film, that has important lessons embedded in it for those seeking communal rift in contemporary India.