Leading
TV director-producer and documentary filmmaker
Vinta Nanda is known for her concerns with social
issues. She embarks on her first feature in English,
the subject, one she knows well, the heady, cut-throat
world of production houses involved in the relentless
process of churning out soaps that bring in the
lolly. The film zeroes in on Karan (Rahul Bose),
newly arrived in Mumbai,
who joins Mickey Malhotras' studio 'Light
House', as a film editor. Just prior to that,
he has had a chance encounter with a colleague
Gauri (Koel Purie) whose looks, personality and
inner complexities fascinate him. Gauri takes
refuge in work and drink, as she is hurting from
the abrupt end to a long relationship with her
former boss, Pawan (Aryan Vaid), who is married
and playing the field. Head honcho Malhotra (Jatin
Siyal) has hired her considerable scripting talent
hoping that she will resurrect one of his fading
on-going television series. Karan reaches out
to the pained Gauri. White Noise, set in suburban
Mumbai, is a modern comment on love, marriage,
family and mumbai itself- the city of dreams,
where expression and talent are often replaced
be ego and judgement.
