It is Christmas Day in Calcutta and David Dawson is off to celebrate it with his sweetheart, Nandini Shom. The meeting does not go well as Nandini wants him to start working so that they can get married and start a family, while David wants a career as a musician. She tells him that she will never see him again. Despondent, he returns to his rented apartment and is chided by his landlady, Lillian, who threatens to have him evicted as he has been delinquent in paying his rent for over a year...
Acting
Shabana Azmi carries the whole ensemble
Direction
Dutt's cramped framing makes Calcutta suffocating
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like people talking
Director
Anjan Dutt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the rare Indian films exploring Anglo-Indian community post-Independence, capturing a disappearing subculture in 90s Calcutta.
Irrfan Khan's small role as the police inspector was shot before his international breakthrough; he reportedly did it as a favor to Dutt from their NSD days.
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