While visiting his comatose wife in the hospital, a serene old professor befriends a vibrant young woman whose husband has also fallen into a coma.
Acting
Naseeruddin Shah and Kalki Koechlin's chemistry defies their 40-year age gap.
Writing
Dialogue that makes hospital vending machine conversations feel like poetry.
Direction
Anu Menon finds warmth in fluorescent-lit corridors and beeping machines.
Director
Anu Menon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anu Menon wrote this after her own father's prolonged hospitalization, filming in an actual working hospital in Kochi with real medical staff as extras.
The film quietly critiques India's medical bureaucracy and the isolation of hospital waiting rooms, spaces rarely depicted in Bollywood's usual spectacle.
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