Zayan calls his mother. She picks up. Says nothing. Zayan says: "I'm still your son. If you want to find me, I'm here." A click. She hung up. Zayan smiles through tears. "She didn't say no. That's more than yesterday."
She is brilliant. Uncredited.
Mira (typing): "No."
Mira turns on her webcam for the first time in three years.
Her last credited work was a short film that won a National Award. After that, a viral tweet misidentified her as the "real villain" of a controversy she had nothing to do with. The trolls found her number. They sent photos of her apartment gate. She stopped leaving it. mujhse dosti karoge jio cinema
Mira looks at her phone. Last outgoing call: 847 days ago. To her mother. Who didn't pick up.
Mira mutes the TV. Then unmutes it.
She pauses. Then, to Riya: