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Synopsis: Author Shaukat Vashisht lives a wealthy life-style in India with his wife, Antara, who is a College Teacher. Shaukat achieves fame when he is nominated for the Booker prize, and goes on to win it. His publishers, hoping that they have unleashed a goldmine, are disappointed with his subsequent works, and soon Shaukat is depressed to such an extent that he almost gives up writing. Then he decides to write a story on a woman named Tamanna, and figures that he will base this story on none other than Antara herself. For this purpose he starts to make note of her every movement, and it is then that he finds out that she has an admirer in fellow-teacher, Yash, a dashing young man - with a bright future ahead of him. Shaukat also finds out that Antara has never mentioned Yash to him, nor has she informed Yash that she is married. Watch how his obsession with Tamanna blurs Shaukat's reality with fiction and hallucination - with hopes still high that he will make a come-back and be nominated aga
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Leena Yadav
Production: Contentino
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.2
Year:
2005
140 min
206 Views


Hasn't anyone given you a rose so far?

- No. I wouldn't accept, even if he did

Why not?

- Because it's wrong

Why?

Because I'm a lecturer

and they're my students

Wasn't I your lecturer too?

That's a different story.

You're elder to me

But what if I were younger?

Then you'd have been

my husband, the professor

Is it wrong to be younger?

No. For me, it's wrong to accept

a rose from anyone other than you

Because I love you very much, shaukat

I love you very much.

Wrong!

Yes... I've found my subject

No, no... it's forbidden

This thing that is forbidden

is going to be my theme

Nobody likes restrictions

And that which is forbidden,

you begin to gradually like

The more you want to give

your relationship a description...

it gets stronger and stronger

Wouldn't you want a relationship like

that one...? Tell me, Tamanna

You'll want a relationship

that sates your hunger

forbidden.

A relationship that someone

else does not accept

The beginning. Two years later

Thanks Tamanna.

"The body is just an excuse"

"It's in soul

that we have to merge"

"Ever since I have held your hand..."

"I feel I hold the reins

of the world"

"A new story of love

is now beginning..."

"all distances are being bridged,

the chasm is vanishing"

"There's something happening

in which words are lost..."

"in the deep meaning of it all"

"I have loved you

with all my heart..."

"permit me, my love,

that I may go to flounder"

"freeze these moments of love

in time..."

"arrest these moments,

they're about to go by"

"Never before was there so much

of youthfulness in the air..."

"it appears to be

a new world to me"

"There shall be more

of these wonderful times..."

"forever, tugging

at two loving hearts"

They'll give you a fragrance

all day

I hope you have a nice day too.

- I will

The story will surely pick up

tempo today

And I will set out

on a strange journey

Wish me luck.

All the best.

I'm sure a beginning

will be made today

Tamanna, I've promised Antara that

my story will pick up tempo today

The first twist in my story

is about love

Try loving someone, Tamanna.

The lanes will appear to be like clouds

Here on earth, you will be able

to reach out to the skies

It's time you flew with someone,

Tamanna. You must at least try!

Excuse me.

Close your eyes and the fragrance

disappears. So keep your eyes closed

I'll ask my question later.

- It's okay. What is it?

Staff room.

You're a new arrival in the college?

- Yes

Dr Tripathi, the students' counsellor,

is not in the staff room

But where is the staff room?

As I said, you will find

Dr Tripathi in his office

Okay, now miss...

- Antara.

Staff room.

You will find Dr Tripathi

in his office

Gotcha! Gotcha!

Will you marry me.

- What!

That's what they say

in such a situation

What's wrong with you.

You jerk, you...

Hi Antara.

What's this...?

One man on another?

No, Ma'am. He's sitting on me.

And I'm a teacher here

What? You're a teacher...?

Yash! Photography.

Get out of here.

Sorry madam.

It's okay.

Watch out these guys.

Get out from here.

What are you doing here? Get going!

Well come to collage professor Yash.

But how about the staff room...?

I gave you your freedom, didn't I?

And yet, why're you so lonely Tamanna?

What are you afraid of, Tamanna?

There is no bond of relationships.

You are free... absolutely free

There's just no discipline nowadays

Hello.

Hi! Miss Kapadia.

A bit to the right, to the left...

Thank you very much.

Sorry for trouble guys.

I'm not a student. I'm a teacher

I'm Bhargava.

Let that handshake be.

Your hand is bandaged

My hand has healed long ago.

- So have it cut

Excuse me...?!

- No, the bandage

Old company. I've sort of

fallen in love with it

see how difficult it is?

It takes so much of energy!

Know what? Let's share.

You, your lunch-box. I, my jokes

There used to be a sardar...

won't you laugh?

Why?

- It makes everyone laugh. No...?

One second please.

Mr Bhargav, want to listen to a joke?

- Sure, go ahead!

There was this sardar...

What do you mean he was?

Sorry.

Okay, maybe not a sardar.

How about ourselves?

"But we're lecturers,

we mustn't be seen laughing..."

I hope you don't suffer

from those notions?

What are you up to?

- Excuse me?

Now tell me, how did the two of you

meet for the first time?

You must've met before your marriage,

isn't it? So how did you meet?

Shouldn't we have met?

- No, that's not...

I know, you don't like me.

You want me to go back

I know, you've tolerated my husband

for years...

and you're now wondering who the

hell is this new chatterbox

Whatever happens,

we've taken the vows

We'll live together

through thick and thin

Why isn't your name Basanti?

- What's wrong with Rajni?

And Rajni's not leaving.

- All I asked is how you met...

how you fell in love?

- Love...?

Father said there was a suitor

for me, who lived in the city

I said I wouldn't marry a drunkard. But

father was told, he doesn't even smoke

I had a friend who moved to

Bombay after her marriage

14 people slept together in

a room on the first night

My father said my suitor had a room

of his own. So we got married

Will you have some tea...?

What is it?

Senior Master...?

- Why do you call me senior Master?

Because the junior must

soon be on his way

You talk too much!

- But I only offered him tea

Excuse me Yash.

I mean... sir.

Sir, I wish to join

your classes in photography

Hi, I'm Karishma.

I wished to show you my photographs.

Actually, I'm a student of fine arts

I'll look at all your photographs.

Okay? Bye!

Monday morning, 9 O'clock.

He is so cute.

Antara... lovely name!

Who gave you that name?

Must've been your Mom. Only

women can think of such lovely names

Did you have something to say?

- Yes, but I forget what it was

Give me a smile before you leave.

- Why?

I don't know why! Give me a smile,

like you did this morning

This is the first time I've had

such a strange request

You've met me for the first time too.

- What meaningless...

so let's laugh because there isn't

anything to laugh about! What say?

Like, there was this sardar...

sorry madam.

Thank you.

I've fallen in love!

Will macaroni and cheese do?

With tomato and parsley!

A new lecturer arrived at the

college today. His name is Yash

from his looks and behaviour, no one can

say whether he's a student or a teacher

I've never seen a lecturer

like him, shaukat

Trendy clothes, a rucksack,

his left hand in a plaster...

his fracture has healed, but he

hasn't taken the bandage off

You should have seen.

What didn't that plaster have!

It was like some kind of artwork!

God!

He tried to make me laugh all day...

Interesting.

- C'mon, What interesting.

He had no shame or inhibitions!

No one has ever screamed "Antara" at me

And that too, from a distance

of 500 meters!

He kept yelling away! The insolent!

- Insolent...?

Maybe he's bowled over by you.

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Leena Yadav

Leena Yadav (born 6 January 1971) is an Indian Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter & Editor. She started her career in the television industry and gradually moved on to making feature films. Her first international feature film, Parched, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival in 2015. more…

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