Frames per Second: So easy to kill a man

As uneasy calm settles on Delhi, there is little hope for sprouting love like between Mr and Mrs Iyer

“The guard told me you had left,” said Meenakshi Iyer (Konkona Sen Sharma) on finding her travelling companion, photographer Raja (Rahul Bose), sleeping under a tree in the winter sun, just outside a forest guest house where the two, along with Meenakshi’s infant son Santanam, have taken refuge. A few minutes before, the duo — the protagonists of Aparna Sen’s Mr and Mrs Iyer (2002) — have an altercation as the guest house has only one usable room that Meenakshi — a married, traditional, Tamil Brahmin woman — does not want to share with Raja. Soon after, she is informed