Five Spice Curry

Anandamayee hides a priceless heirloom and leaves behind a quirky, irksome riddle for her relatives to solve if they want it. She wants her favourite grandchild to find it. Will the right person be able to solve the riddle and find it before everyone else? Aditya’s ex-girlfriend Sonya returns after 8 years, asking for reconciliation. Aditya, who still now loves her, asks his wife Nirupama for a divorce. She readily agrees. However, does that solve Aditya’s problems? Does he marry Sonia and “live happily ever after”?Lila is not an insomniac. Yet she has been unable to sleep at night for the past one year without taking sleeping pills. “Do you have any problems in sexual intercourse?” the doctor asks and recommends consulting a psychiatrist. Is Lila going mad? Tridib is at the wheel of his car with his wife and 5-year old daughter Rumi, when a truck hits them head-on. Death comes looking for the family. How does a badly injured Tridib thwart death? What happens to Rumi?Frustrated, Venky asks Bela “So why couldn’t you ‘think’ at your own home or at any other place?” With an impish smile, Bela says, “Because you are my Wedding Planner Venky.” However, does Venky see himself as a successful wedding planner? Or just a closet homosexual? What does the mirror tell him? The five spices blend to add a unique flavour to food. Similarly, our emotions – good, bad and ugly –form the interesting patterns of life. Here are five slices of life – each story with a unique flavour of the emotions blended into it, guiding it. Taste this five-spice curry of life.