Autumn Afternoon

A superannuated gentleman residing in the countryside is suddenly drawn into the world of theatre The local group wants him in a Bengali version of a Pirandello play and he becomes involved with one of the players a young girl in her twenties who like him is new to theatre Against the backdrop of the pandemic and the imminent war in Ukraine this story of a highly unlikely relationship unfolds even as a strictly conservative society looks on with baited breath As the pandemic necessitates a hiatus in the rehearsals and the emptiness of his house engulfs him the lonely gentleman gets sucked into a world of fantasy his expectations build up and he becomes acutely sensitive to his milieu