A stunning Manoj Bajpayee in a demanding Kanu Behl film

FRAIL, middle-aged print journalist is desperately looking for a front-page breaking story at a time when news is going digital.

- SHREYAS PANDE

His name is Joy (Manoj Bajpayee) but there is nothing joyful about his life. He has an unhappy marriage with his wife Shweta (Shahana Goswami). He does not come home for days. In a scene, he uncomfortably makes love in a car with his junior, Varsha (Parvati Sehgal). Joy's character is loosely inspired from the life of slain journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, who was more dramatically explored in Hansal Mehta's web series Scoop. Here, it's more existential. There's more focus on the absurdity of the investigation that Joy engages in to get to the truth. He is not driven by a journalistic vigour of exposing a scam for greater good, and the filmmaking does not imbibe any sense of urgency to his journey, either. There are no unexpected twists and turns, or any breaking news to save the day. The only thing that's twisted is Joy's fate; the only thing which breaks is his nose. This is a Kanu Behl film, after all.