Riverfront Stories

Not all superheroes wear cape, some wear shirt-capes. A chance rush-hour encounter between a suicidal young man and two spunky children selling refreshments on the riverfront leads to a life-altering experience.

..In the dusk, I belong only to myself! Eyebrows are raised and necks craned as two sexagenarians – Appu and Dolly, flee an uneventful rather tedious bhajan sandhya to revel in happy companionship, forcing their scrutinizing and eventually jealous counterparts to admit their struggle with loneliness at the dusk of their lives.

…Of mirages and love. In the scorching hour of a routine Ahmedabad Sunday, a refreshing “Khus na attar ni sheeshi” becomes a compass and helps a charming but seasoned flea market pickpocket navigate through the labyrinth of bitter-sweet emotions as he is forced to confront his reality - of a flogged past and a new beginning.

In the solace of night, the layers unravel. After being at the center of a spectacle ripping through the silence of the night and having unleashed unwarranted fury at an unsuspecting Sarangi player, a bitter and lonely woman struggling with unresolved emotions finds much-needed therapeutic release in the most unlikely place.