![]() ![]() Zareen is predictably resentful towards her siblings and it doesn’t help that both her parents are quite a handful - the father (played by Syed Mohammad Ahmad) is a stubborn patriarch while the mother (Beo Raana Zafar) potters around the house sporting blonde wigs, often breaking into an impromptu jig to the R.D. Zareen (Aamina Sheikh) has long given up her dreams of enrolling at Le Cordon Bleu and becoming a pastry chef, looking after her ailing parents even as her siblings Zain (Faris Khalid) and Zara (Sanam Saeed) have flown the coop in search of greener pastures abroad. ![]() Written and directed by debutant Asim Abbasi, Cake takes a peek into the lives of a well-heeled Karachi family. In tone, Cake may seem closer to Kapoor & Sons, but in theme and treatment it is a lot like Piku, the 2015 Shoojit Sircar film that focused on the fractious but ultimately loving dynamic between a father and daughter. ![]() With its themes of love and loss, children flying the nest, aged parents being resentful and helpless in turns and fractured relationships, Cake, a 2018 Pakistani film that’s currently streaming on Netflix, is an intimate look at what goes into building bonds in a family, and more importantly, the work that goes into retaining them. It’s a pre-climactic moment in the film but it characterises the dynamics of modern relationships and is a defining moment in Cake, just like the “plumber scene” - a family of four holding back their angst and then letting it rip over a seemingly small argument that assumes giant proportions - in Kapoor & Sons was. The result is a dizzying 10-minute single-take in which the family bickers and blames, shouts and squabbles as the players move from one room to another, the camera following them like a predator. Somewhere in the second hour of Cake, a family on the brink for days boils over and has a meltdown. ![]()
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