The characters are disconnected—from each other, from the city, and from themselves. Shonai chooses to live in a ruin; Itti walks through Kolkata as if it is a foreign land; Lakhinder returns home to find no home at all. The film critiques the soullessness of rapid urbanization, particularly the real estate explosion in the Greater Kolkata region.
The absence of a traditional soundtrack (replaced by Bickram Ghosh's ambient drone music and the diegetic sounds of drilling and insect hum) reinforces the film's atmosphere of anxious stillness. Chatrak 2011 Bengali Movie Wiki