Remember, back in 1999, sitting at the edge of your seat and wondering if Manoj Bajpayee was a sinister killer or just an innocent caught in the wrong place at the wrong time? This week, more than a decade and a half after “Kaun”, Bajpayee is falling down the psychological rabbit hole again, this time in a Shirish Kunder short film titled “Kriti”. The 18-minute short film has been released on the Muvizz YouTube channel.
We’re not quite sure why Sapan (Bajpayee) is meeting his psychiatrist Kalpana (Radhika Apte), but we do know that he has trouble keeping a firm grip on the line between reality and delusion. So when Kalpana hears that Sapan has a new girlfriend called Kriti (or “creation”), she thinks it’s all too convenient that the new girl is an agoraphobe (a person afraid of open spaces and crowds; for reference watch Apte herself play an agoraphobe in the recently-released “Phobia”).
Her doubts have Sapan off-balance: where will it all finally end?