PRETENTIOUS AND POINTLESS
An aging actress has come out of self-imposed retirement of 15 years (she went off cinema because Satyajit Ray died without working with her) to play Kunti in an arty English language film about Karna. At the film’s after-party, she finds out that the much younger director (Priyanshu Chatterjee) who’s also her lover, has offered the lead role in his next to a younger actress after pledging it to her. The actress decides to commit suicide. She goes home, tells her maid she’ll be sleeping in late, and proceeds to rummage through a trunk filled with old albums, posters, diaries and other memorabilia which takes her on nostalgic journey.
Her life unspools in flashback. She may be an actress by profession, but the memories are mostly about former lovers and a love child, and about life passing her by. By the time it’s all done, dawn is breaking through. Sleeping pills in hand, she spots messages and missed calls on her phone. They’re from another lover saying, “I’m there”. She puts the pills back in the bottle for another day and takes her dog for a walk instead.
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