Sandeep Chatterjee

Malakavva, a female auto rickshaw driver in the city of Pune, navigates her way through life in a profession dominated by men, and where her own life has been shaped for the worse by the men in her life.

A writer stays away from the city with an elderly widow. His wife had desserted him. He suffers from a writer's block. The incessant mating calls of cuckoos disturb him. On one such afternoon, an old friend Shanti, abandoning his wife's funeral has come looking for him. Is he sad?

Documentary filmmaker Kamal shoots obsessively during his last days, in search of an image, deadly as syphilis, that would rot away the eyes of the viewer.