You can take every frame out of Aditya Vikram Sengupta's second feature, put it up on a gallery wall and be rest assured that people will line up to see it. Love, longing and loneliness sucks you in like a deep breath, keeps you inside as long as they feel like and then breathes you out slowly at their own pace. Burnt walls, flickering lights and a brilliant soundscape aptly add to the minimalist performance of the actors who beautifully narrate an unforgiving story in the bleakness of this impressionist dreamscape. The stunning cinematography cajoles you into the chasms of the story, the edit pace unravels at its own speed to reveal things told and untold, the dialogues are minimal and narrated when needed, the production design is breathtaking to say the least and coming back to the sound design, it unravels in the background to express the deep seated emotions that the characters experience and emote from time to time. Jonaki is cinema that needs to be watched and watched again because each immersion is bound to be a new journey into the unknown. It's a deep dive into the senses, an open window in the structure of modern cinema of India and an experience that will linger even after the curtains come down.