Well shot, from fixed cameras in taxis and tuk tuks to long shots of Charu in crowds of casual labourers and tight shots of Charu in other crowds and against the slum horizon and we keep watching her searching and we keep wondering. Around her the city, always the city, and her housemates and her neighbours and her interviewer for a job and the people around her and the people around them and the people around them until, again, the city. Questions of identity become ever more important, of motivation, as Charu puts her own life on hold to ask questions about this stranger. The more she searches, the more she asks, the more we find ourselves asking. While Geetanjali Thapa plays the central role the star is Mumbai - director Kamal KM has the city bustling, beautiful - the towering apartment complexes on the link road, the cramped confines of a tuk tuk, the bustle of train stations and the town squares where men wait for casual labour, roving and roaming far and wide across the vast and populous conurbation as Charu tries to identify the painter. He's in Charu's flat when it happens and she becomes discomfited, agitated, even panicked as she tries to secure aid for him. The painter arrives, a day late, and then after collapsing becomes, well, 'the late painter'.
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