She routinely has nightmares her former vertically challenged help Rancho (Arun Kushwah) will break into her house. Her fear of vertically-challenged men, instilled by her dwarf domestic help, finds expression in her obsession with vertically challenged television villains. Sain turns the home invasion genre on his head with a relentlessly wacky narrative, and a supposedly senile septuagenarian (Swaroop Sampat) at the centre. In fact, Nano So Phobia is so good that it may be even come to define what a model short film should look like. With Nano So Phobia, director Rakesh Sain poses a commentary on society and its apathy, but without a pinch of sermonising. While one tells the tale of an old, disheveled woman fighting to cope with the trauma of being robbed by her domestic help, the other captures the plight of a man who has just been informed that his wife has been an infidel. Talking about Bollywood, the most un-mainstream ventures in the anthology are the deliciously zany Nano So Phobia and Swaaha, both laced with a wicked sense of humour. Despite the superb acting though, one may find Sleeping Partner a tad too melodramatic and Bollywoodised, especially in the end. His gait, and the twitch is his eyebrow is as far from a quintessential antagonist can get - which makes Kapoor so chilling.
Divya, systemically raped and sexually abused by her husband for over two decades, feels emboldened when her husband's colleague Ravish (Jitin Gulati) assures her she "deserves love."ĭutta imbues her character with utmost vulnerability, and Kapoor nails his portrayal of an abusive husband, by making him a spectacularly ordinary man. Her husband (Sanjay Kapoor) addresses her as his "sleeping partner," and treats her as a subhuman. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Beena (Divya Dutta) hopes one day she will be recognised and respected for the woman she is. Punarvasu Naik's directorial Sleeping Partner is also about a woman's journey to emancipation. Even in her rebellion, it is Neena's dignified quietude that makes the ending so powerful and effective. But Kashyap's masterstroke to make Neena quiet and shy helps the film from slipping into intense melodrama. Neena's only human interaction is with the help, who does not spare a moment to roll her eyes at Neena's dedication towards her family or belt out a saucy remark at her naivety. There is also a cheeky observer - the domestic help (played by the effervescent Srishti Shrivastava). Silently, she seeks refuge into the bountiful, bustling kitchen with its clanking dishes, whistling kettles, and boiling pots. Her husband (Shishir Sharma) is never malicious but often fails to regard his wife as a thinking entity.
The anthology begins with Tahira Kashyap Khurrana's short Pinni, which she has crafted with utmost delicateness. This is a story about a neglected woman ( Neena Gupta), whose daughter and relatives call her only when they need her to courier them her special handcrafted pinnis (a type of sweet popular in Punjab).
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