Three timelines, one name, zero chill — Banerjee weaponizes bureaucracy like you've never seen.
Spanning across 90 years, follow a middle-class Muslim family across three generations. 2042. Six months after his manuscript titled Tees (30) is rejected for publication by the Literature and Arts Commission, Anhad Draboo, a young freelance prostitute, meets Niharika, a “reader” from the Commission – who has been searching for Anhad ever since she read his manuscript. 2018. Zia Draboo, a corporate lawyer living in Mumbai and all set to buy the flat she has been renting with her partner Meera, finds out she cannot buy it because of the Housing Society’s resistance to her name. 1989-90. Ayesha, a housebound State Radio newsreader in Srinagar, Kashmir, reaches out to her childhood friend Usha to solicit help from her husband – a government official. She needs it for her own husband, Ghulam Muhammad, who faces bankruptcy and ruin amongst rising unrest in the city.
Direction
Banerjee's three-era structure collapses time like a failed building permit.
Acting
Huma Qureshi's silent rage in that society meeting scene — academy, take notes.
Production
2042 Mumbai: neon-drenched surveillance state that feels terrifyingly earned.
Director
Dibakar Banerjee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Tees' title refers to both Anhad's age (30) and the Article 30 constitutional right — which the 2042 Commission has apparently gutted.
Dibakar Banerjee reportedly wrote the Kashmir sequences first in 2019, then rewrote entirely after the 2019 Article 370 revocation — the three-timeline structure emerged from that collapse.
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