A still from Jonaki, with actor Lolita Chatterjee wearing the character's wedding dress

In 2009, filmmaker Aditya Vikram Sengupta found himself at his grandmother's deathbed as she went into a coma. "Her eyes very slightly open and it seemed as if she was murmuring something to herself. I often wondered what she must be going through," says Sengupta, 33. Four days later, Sheila Ghosh, his grandmother, passed away. It wasn't until a few months later when the gravity of his loss got Sengupta down. During her lifetime, the two were very close, and his childhood comprised stories narrated by her, which often included memories of her own childhood.