Long Story Short: The Broken Table is a Moving Ode to the Cinema of Memory – FILM COMPANION

Director: Chintan Sarda

Writers: Vikram Gupta, Chintan Sarda

Solid: Naseeruddin Shah, Rasika Dugal

There are two methods to take a look at The Damaged Desk, a discerning 23-minute brief movie by Chintan Sarda. One, because the story of an previous Alzeihmer’s-afflicted man (Naseeruddin Shah, as Giridhar) who struggles via the day along with his younger new caregiver (Rasika Dugal, as Deepti). Giridhar nonetheless thinks he’s a working towards lawyer; he retains making an attempt to go away for “workplace” in his automobile, solely to be stopped by the watchman on the gate. Deepti feels terrible for him, however as a budding psychologist, she research his character. She finds it heartwarming that he remembers his spouse completely, however forgets different particulars about his life. His bearings are shaky at finest, demonstrated by the truth that he doesn’t even recognise his personal grandson when his household leaves to attend a marriage. That it’s Naseeruddin Shah doing this in his twilight years – constructing on his affecting stage rendition of Florian Zeller’s The Father (2020) – solely provides to the character’s language of disorientation.

The second means to take a look at The Damaged Desk is because the story of a younger caregiver and budding psychologist, who has simply been knowledgeable by her gynaecologist that childbearing is now not an possibility. Deepti is upset, after all, however extra due to the ramifications she suspects this may have on her marriage. When former divorce lawyer Giridhar – the Alzeihmer’s-afflicted previous man she has been employed to take care of – errors Deepti to be one in every of his shoppers, she decides to play alongside. He begins to take notes about her marital equation. Within the course of, she finds herself a bit of; she confides in him that her major concern includes Dhruv, her over-practical husband, leaving her as soon as he discovers her ‘flaw’. She begins to take Giridhar critically as soon as she realises that the previous man, who routinely forgets the place he’s, remembers the essence of dwelling and companionship. His soul, in contrast to his thoughts, has nonetheless not light. Deepti listens to tales of how he met his spouse years in the past, and appears at him sadly when he goes looking for her in different bedrooms.

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