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Megacity Kolkata hides many worlds
inside it. This film explores several facets of life in
the city, through three intertwining stories,
documenting the loves, fears, joys, sorrows,
insecurities, and confidences of people who, despite
vast differences, seem to merge in one great long flow
of humanity.
Manmatha belongs to the upper echelons of the new,
burgeoning middle class. He is spending an entire night
at the emergency ward of a state hospital. It is in the
hospital that Manmatha meets Jagadish, a lower middle
class man, whose son, a soccer goalkeeper, is fighting a
deadly stomach injury. Manmatha is completely baffled by
Jagadish’s unruffled, serene attitude. A violent street
gang conflict near the hospital prompts Manmatha and
Jagadish to retreat to Manmatha's car, where they see
the outside world ……
Biren is jobless and lives in the borders of the city.
Bombs are exploded and bullets fired near a construction
site in the neighborhood when there is gang dispute over
extortions. Biren begins to ask all and sundry: “I have
nothing to fear. Do I?” He gets the same answer: “What
do you have to fear?” And yet Biren cannot get over his
fear. An unknown terror grips him. But, unfortunately,
Biren’s worst fears come true. In the tumult of the
city, it is impossible to discern when and from what
source a bullet might arrive and pick a head from the
crowd.
Rohit and Rongili are currently separated. Rohit is an
America returned MBA who works for a multinational and
makes loads of money. It was a dazzlingly packaged life
that was empty at the core. But something strange
happened to Rohit on the day of the lunar eclipse. He
was drinking alone in his swanky, well-furnished
high-rise apartment and sees a weird hallucination. A
pyre had been set in the heart of the city for the
inhuman medieval ritual of burning widows. Hours later
Rohit was lying unconscious in the hospital.
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