Title: ai

Genre: Drama
Format: Short Film; 22 mins
Language: English

 

India Release date: Mid 2020 after premiering in International Film Festivals.

 

Filmmaker: Abhiroop Basu

 

Synopsis: ai is a 16-minute roller coaster emotional thriller. A conversation between an AI enabled voice assistant and 78-year lonely woman in a humid summer afternoon.

 

Pratima, a yesteryear struggling (& eventually failed actress) reveals her once flamboyant & high-life with the Bollywood in 60’s over a conversation, a chat with someone who is not judging her.  She in her wheelchair & the device comfortably placed in the dining table of a plush apartment in Mumbai.