Trishna is a 2011 drama film, written and directed by Michael Winterbottom, and starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed.

[2] Wealthy British businessman Jay Singh comes to Rajasthan, India, to work in his father's hotel business.

After an accident destroys her father's Jeep and leaves her family without the means to support themselves, Trishna, approached with an offer of employment from Jay, accepts and begins to work for him.

However, her father's shame over her pregnancy and the family's need for income means that she is sent to serve her bed-bound aunt and work in the small factory her uncle runs.

In Mumbai, Trishna accompanies Jay to events relating to the film industry, in which he is interested in investing as a producer.

Shocked by the brush with mortality, Jay feels closer to Trishna, and confesses having slept with two other women before she moved in with him.

After months of abuse, a distraught Trishna takes a kitchen knife while Jay is sleeping and stabs him to death.

Despite appearing to have a normal life, Trishna eventually commits suicide by stabbing herself with the same knife used to kill Jay.

David Gritten in the Daily Telegraph wrote that, "The film looks splendid, and its incisive score by Shigeru Umebayashi, with a lovely mournful waltz theme, propels the story all the way to its unhappy climax.

Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal thought that the film was "spectacular visually, though awfully somber dramatically".