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Shailaja’s first port of call in Vengurla is her old school, which is closed for a few days. She then begins to stroll around, recounting rather easily her youth in the town when her regular life has been impacted by the illness that claws at her. A stroll down a lane leads to an encounter with a childhood friend – Gauri (Sharvari Lohokare). Suddenly Shailaja is a young girl again, giggling when she learns that Gauri married their childhood classmate. It is through Gauri that she learns the whereabouts of a man she had first asked the peon about. Pradeep Kamat (Ahlawat) now works in the local bank, has been in the job for over a decade, and is only too happy to meet up with Shailaja.
Sitting in a restaurant, something hangs between the two friends, and Dipankar and Pradeep end up doing most of the talking till Shailaja feels enough at ease to speak to a man who was once, quite obviously, her childhood sweetheart.
The three of them, along with Gauri, go down to the school, where they spend a while in the friends’ old classroom. As they reflect on the days gone by, Dipankar realises that his wife and Pradeep were not merely friends. It is not information that visibly irks him, but he feels little pinches, such as the fact that Pradeep knows so much about how Shailaja likes things; he can’t help but take a jibe at the other man when there finally appears to be something he knows.
On the other hand, Pradeep’s wife Sarika (Kadambari Kadam) deems it important for him to spend time with Shailaja, to go with her and Dipankar to their childhood haunts and to her old home, where Shailaja’s sister Venu died in a tragic accident.
While Dipankar doesn’t express anger at any point, he does appear to resent Shailaja’s inability to remember their time together when she has such great recollections of her childhood. She reminds him that quite often people don’t remember the wonderful ordinary days of their life, and that they are all doomed to forget things as the end beckons.
Closure
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