Patishapta

The manner in which food comes to define and tie together familial bonds is often endearing and lasting in the most unexpected ways. The story of the short film sets the same premise by introducing us to the absolute chaos a woman's life is hurled into following the Covid-19 quarantine. She now finds herself sharing a house with her former mother-in-law who refuses to speak to her.

Soon it is the recipe of a patishapta, a Bengali pancake of sorts, that another relative provides, that becomes the sturdy bridge to invoke potential of communication, and perhaps, eventual acceptance and union as well between the two women. However, since a world that has known a pandemic is also one that has known tragedy, an undesirable development awaits the protagonist at the film's conclusion.

Amidst it all, it is indeed trying her beloved aunt's recipes and allowing them to be a place of comfort and solace that equips her to battle the sad reality of a pandemic better. In an isolating house of silence and disconcerting quiet, she now finds the resultant delicacies to be her only companions. Additionally, they lead her to the realization of a beauty she may have not acknowledged before, underlines the narrative.