Celebrities arrive at an extravagant party in Bombay to honour Divakar for his contributions to arts and cinema. However, gossip, uninvited guests and a dead body show up to mar the celebrations.
Writing
Mahesh Elkunchwar's play adaptation: every insult lands like a velvet knife.
Acting
Rohini Hattangadi's Mohini owns every room she enters, drunk or furious.
Direction
Nihalani traps you in claustrophobic rooms where pretensions curdle.

Director
Govind Nihalani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of Indian parallel cinema's sharpest class critiques, made when Bombay's art scene was imploding under commercial pressure.
The entire film was shot in a real bungalow in 20 days; the suffocating atmosphere is literal.