On The Hottest Day In The City) is a 2023 Indian Bengali-language Romance drama film written and directed by Aritra Sen and produced by Parambrata Chatterjee.
Life poses a second chance for their budding nascent love, when Ritoban, a disillusioned PHD student in London, returns to Kolkata after three years and bumps into Anindita, his college sweetheart who is now a successful RJ.
As memories of their romance flash by in the iconic places of the city that seems to have frozen in time, the two ex-lovers individually reminisce about the dreams they had hoped to realize together, before a devastating incident left them with few other choices than breaking up.
In the present, their common friends from college reunite and while each share their unique journeys in the last few years, Anindita and Ritoban maintain an avoidant stance towards each other due to the burden of apologies, unspoken words and piling grievances.
The film is an ode to the city considered ‘dying’ by many but holds in its heart the many incomplete stories of love that have lost themselves in the chase for dreams.