Amidst communal tension outside, a dysfunctional family sits together for their customary morning meal. • Meal is the result of a seeping frustration in all of us, threatening to be unleashed. The characters are neither victims nor perpetrators, simply the products of a degrading socio‑political system that offers no escape nor any respite.

ABHIROOP BASU is an award-winning director and screenwriter based in Kolkata. A student of St. Xavier’s College Kolkata, Abhiroop went on to study filmmaking at the prestigious Prague Film School. Some of his award-winning shorts include Afternoon with Julia,

The Paperman and This is when we first met.