Also Known As: Alik Sukh - A tale Of Fleeting Happiness
Country: India
Language: Bengali
Year: 2013
Color/BW: COLOR
Category: Feature Film
Genre: Drama
Description
The story is of a doctor who is out negotiating the purchase of a luxury apartment for himself and his wife and cannot rush back to deal with an emergency because of a traffic jam. When his women patient dies after developing complications following a caesarean delivery, her more militant family members hold the doctor responsible and smash up the nursing home. It does not help the doctor that even his wife believes he is guilty of negligence. Her struggle with her conscience is depicted through her conversations with the dead woman whom she has seen lying abandoned on an operating table. The doctor hires a defence lawyer but is persuaded by pragmatic but amoral medical colleagues to settle out of court. Will Kingshuk ever be able to regain happiness in his life or is happiness just a distant fleeting emotion...?
