Aditya Ingale

Paulwaat is film about a middle-class youth who attempts to follow his dreams in the gut-wrenching bowels of Mumbai’s music industry. While the film has, at its heart, an honest story, it is let down by poor technique and direction. Apart from failing to capture, in any measure whatsoever, the essence of the struggle that one has to truly endure in Mumbai, it also fails to explore some potentially interesting characters and relationships. Poor attention to detail adds to the woes of this film. Though by no means an unwatchable film, one sorely misses a strong directorial voice in this honest story.

Doctor and his wife regularly invite a group of close friends for a weekend of partying at their farmhouse. When lights go out on one such occasion, and they hear a sound of a kiss followed by someone getting slapped, everyone is curious about who the perpetrators are. But it's only the beginning of a mystery.

The story takes a simple and straightforward look at relationships, focusing on the theme of love. It follows a couple navigating their bond, with hints of a possible live-in arrangement and pregnancy before marriage.