Sona Spa takes his usual pop-psychological sermonizing and sends it flying into another dimension. Wobbling precariously between half-baked magic realism, implausible science fiction and Madhur Bhandarkar-esque ‘realistic’ filmmaking, Sona Spa makes for one confused piece of work, leaving one’s cinematic sensibilities feeling similarly. Finally this film of complicated relationships between waking and dreaming, living and dying, speaking and thinking, seeking and forsaking is a story of a friendship between two girls from different economic classes, one rich and drunk played by Shruti Vyas, the other middleclass and beleaguered by bourgeous problems, played by Ahana Kumrah. Both the actresses lift the theme’s inherent improbability to the level of credibility. Chaos seems forever to be knocking on this quirky film’s door. Makarand Deshpande keeps us involved in the dreams of his characters. There are many in-house jokes about sleep disorder including one about people in Seattle being sleepless. All in all, like it or hate it, you can’t be indifferent to Makarand Deshpande’s vision of a sleep-starved world, populated by people with guilty secrets and dark desires.