The Film

The Story :

‘3 on a Bed’ brings in 3 people ( a woman and two men) sharing a bed to celebrate friendship that gives rise to the most democratic and secular form of being where the ONE true love can be shared in the most selfless way through the union of minds and bodies together in our very real, mundane and pragmatic world.

The story focuses on three friends Kapil, Padmini and Devdutt, who fall in love with each other and instead of fighting over possession and hierarchy, try to share the love equally among themselves driven by a simple idea that “All love shared is good” and if loving one automatically means excluding everyone else then that desire for selfish possessiveness should be termed anything else but love.

Thus the Bed - the seat of this discovery not only becomes the haven to break free of all bonds and give in to unfettered love but also to discuss and set up the discourse of a new world.

But how long can you go on living in a dream? Does the polyamoric lifestyle of the three and their feelings of compersion towards each other enable them to overcome the feelings of jealousy and the need to conform to social standards or do these eternal vices tear through their perfect union.

The Characters

	KAPIL :  Kapil is the proverbial Peter Pan, an eternal child, a boy who refuses to grow up. Coming from a single-parented family of two, he is a non-residential Bengali who has come back to the city to do is masters in fine arts. Deemed as impractical, a dreamer, Kapil’s eternal quest is for a world where love is not fettered into the boundaries of possession and jealousy. And having not found that he has made himself into a self-chosen loner, and dedicated all his energies to his work, having no space for a personal relationship.
	PADMINI :  Padmini is an amazing combination of beauty and brains, a new age self-sustained lady who lives alone in an empty flat belong to an aunt, nobody knows her dark and vulnerable past. Coming originally from a close-knit rural joint family which has disintegrated over the years, Padmini’s eternal search for love and warmth has led her into many relationships but all those have ultimately become a hell pit of sexual hegemony and possessiveness.   Lonely and vulnerable, Padmini now drowns her sorrows in drinking. The one person she loves and trusts is her best friend Kapil, who is not ready to return her affections.
	DEBDUTTA :  Debdutta is your everyday  average Joe, your friendly boy next door who hides a far more intense, ambitious inside – a scorching desire to be something great. This is what attracts him to the dreamy Kapil and the dignified Padmini. Coming from a middle class joint family living in one of the older localities of North Kolkata, he is forever torn between the high-flying dreams he shares with his friends Kapil and Padmini, and the sense of narrow material practicality that pulls him down.