A British girl Ruth, of Indian descent, is trying to find her father in Mumbai, a city with 20 million people and a billion dreams.
The movie opens with Ruth trying to renew her Visa for a year under the pretense of touring Pune so she can continue looking for her dad. We are given a sneak-peek of the Indian Government offices that process Visas and other official documents. They are rude, disrespectful, and outright lazy, but the girl endures it all because she has a mission, she has a dream, and she will stop at nothing to achieve it.
A letter from her estranged father was all she had
The city of dreams
The entire movie is shot in Mumbai, and every Mumbaikar worth their salt will admire the way, Director Anurag Kashyap has portrayed the city. It’s almost as if the city is alive and has its own personality, with its dark alleys, small houses, and crowded local trains.
The people
Ruth is constantly in touch with a bunch of people to know the whereabouts of her father, the shady guy from the British Embassy, some lady from an Ashram her father visited, a postmaster from Versova, and so on. Every one of them had to be bribed and begged for information.
Aspaspa
Ruth worked at a shady spa as a masseuse to sustain herself in India. The spa was called ‘Aspaspa’ (pronounced as: aas paas spa😒). Such establishments still exist where the girls are asked for hand-shakes (read Handjobs) adding more layers of dark complexity to the plot.
Cokehead Boyfriend
Ruth was going out with a good-for-nothing guy, a chronic alcoholic, and a cokehead. He is constantly drunk and stoned around her and bossed her around. This portrays the penetration of drugs and other such malice in Indian societies, especially in cities like Mumbai. Rampant drug use and serious alcohol-induced problems are the norms here.
After a dramatic event in his life, the boyfriend decides to get his act straight, and in an attempt to get clean he handcuffs himself to a window at Ruth’s place and just decides to wait it out until all the drugs leave his body. It was easier said than done. The pain and trauma of ‘withdrawal was killing and he became very acerbic, badmouthing Ruth and provoking her. He was a total mess but he endured the trouble and stayed handcuffed and sort of cleaned up. But, the past has mysterious ways of biting us in the ass.
The bone-chilling twist
The plot develops when one day Ruth gets a call from one of her contacts, about her father’s whereabouts. That’s when she gets all dressed up to meet her estranged father. She gets to Versova and her dad’s not home and she was waiting and looking at some old pictures and a terrifying secret about her dad is revealed that changes everything. Her whole life shatters in front of her and everything she believed up until now is a huge lie.
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