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also for [personal profile] avani008 who gave me Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Vicky Kaushal, and Konkona Sensharma

Bibha Sen (Konkona) teaches in Bethune College and lives by herself in a North Calcutta house that would certainly be better sold than maintained. She doesn’t exactly need the money, but the house is old and she’s not emotionally attached; it’s only stayed in one piece this long because Ma couldn’t bear the thought of it being otherwise. But Ma has been dead for two years, and she’s just had a very good offer.

Bimala (Deepika) loves coming home on vacations, but has spent maybe a total of ten months in Calcutta in as many years, and most of that was when Ma was ill the last time. She even still thinks of it as Calcutta, not Kolkata. The city won’t run away because they no longer have the house, Didi will have a flat and she can always crash there. Besides, she could use the extra cash; Pune’s an expensive city to move to, and she and Ilesh (Ranveer) are saving up for their upcoming nuptials.

The wildcard is their baby brother Barun (Vicky), who hasn’t properly lived in the city for five years, but is always on the verge of returning for good. Secretive, stubborn, and sentimental, Barun insists on reviving Durga Puja at home over Bibha and Bimala’s objections about financial, emotional, and physical costs, and then uses the Puja as an excuse to put off taking a decision about the house. The only one to whom he’s willing to speak is Ilesh, even though the two have never met that the sisters know of.

If Barun’s great secret is that he’s gay, Ilesh’s is of a different sort altogether. Bimala knows he’s bi, which is true; she knows he’s been faithful, which is also true. She knows he had anonymous and pseudonymous hook-ups right before they started dating three years ago, because she was one of those hook-ups that turned into a date, then two, then the best relationship of his life. She doesn’t know, because he didn’t know till Bibha-di introduced them, that he’d slept with Barun.

It’s Sasthi; they have a week to sort out family, fidelity, and finances.

  
  
  

Date: 2018-12-17 06:13 am (UTC)
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Oh wow! This sounds so interesting!Thank you for sharing!

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