Shweta Basu Prasad in a still from Interior Cafe - Night
New Delhi:
It's a great time to be a short film - between YouTube and social media, you know you're going to be watched when once you had to wait to be screened at films fests and suchlike. This is the newest film on the block and it's clearly destined for greatness, not least because it features former child star Shweta Basu Prasad.
Interior Cafe - Night is Shweta's return to screen after she was arrested, then acquitted, for alleged prostitution in 2014. Here, she co-stars with two greats - Naseeruddin Shah, with whom she worked in 2005 film Iqbal, and Shernaz Patel, the younger version of who Shweta plays in the short.
Interior Cafe - Night, directed by Adhiraj Bose, is set in, as the title suggests, the interior of a cafe in Kolkata at night. It's almost closing time but when cafe owner Naseeruddin Shah spots customer Shernaz Patel at a table, the evening gets a little longer.
It becomes apparent that this is a meeting between two former lovers. A split narrative shows that they parted 30 years ago, she in a flood of tears, he in stony despair.
Forced apart once by circumstances, it appears that serendipity has provided only a short lived reunion.
Unless...
Watch the film to fill in the blanks. Directed by Adhiraj Bose, Interior Cafe - Night co-stars Naveen Kasturia as Naseeruddin Shah's younger self. Shweta Basu Prasad, 26, is credited as co-producer.
Interior Cafe - Night is Shweta's return to screen after she was arrested, then acquitted, for alleged prostitution in 2014. Here, she co-stars with two greats - Naseeruddin Shah, with whom she worked in 2005 film Iqbal, and Shernaz Patel, the younger version of who Shweta plays in the short.
Interior Cafe - Night, directed by Adhiraj Bose, is set in, as the title suggests, the interior of a cafe in Kolkata at night. It's almost closing time but when cafe owner Naseeruddin Shah spots customer Shernaz Patel at a table, the evening gets a little longer.
It becomes apparent that this is a meeting between two former lovers. A split narrative shows that they parted 30 years ago, she in a flood of tears, he in stony despair.
Forced apart once by circumstances, it appears that serendipity has provided only a short lived reunion.
Unless...
Watch the film to fill in the blanks. Directed by Adhiraj Bose, Interior Cafe - Night co-stars Naveen Kasturia as Naseeruddin Shah's younger self. Shweta Basu Prasad, 26, is credited as co-producer.
