In the rat race of Mumbai we sometimes forget the little things that are important and need our immediate attention. This especially pertains to old people in our family who we use as stepping ladders to grow and succeed and then let go when they need us. Barefoot to Goa is a sad story of one such case of an old woman whos pleas go unheard by self consumed individuals.
Kantabai, played by Farrukh Jaffar is an 80 year old lady from Goa who lives alone in a huge house with her only son settled with his family in Mumbai. She keeps loneliness and boredom at bay by making ladoos for her grandchildren. She also writes letters to her son through a typist.
As usual she walks all the way to the typists office, which is at quite a distance and she helps with typing her letter and couriering the ladoos to her son. She writes in her letter that she has not been keeping very well and coughing constantly. She might be suffering from lung cancer and needs to come to Mumbai for help.
The letter and ladoos reach the hand of her daughter-in-law, who throws the ladoos out and doesn’t bother reading the letter. She makes it clear to her husband that she doesn’t want her mother coming to stay with them as they don’t have enough space and help to care for her. He would anyways not like it in a closed apartment in a city. Her children, daughter Diya and son Prakhar find their grandmother’s letters in their mother’s cupboard and start reading them to be shocked that she is unwell and needs to come to Mumbai.
The children without the knowledge of their parents plan to take the train to Goa but forget their tickets and are forced to get off at a random station. With the help of strangers, when they finally reach Goa and to their grandmother’s house to find her missing, but the 80 year old has already left for the station to go to Mumbai. She later collapses and dies before seeing her grandchildren or boarding the train.
The movie is directed and produced by Praveen Morchhale and the music is composed by Rohit Sharma.
