In Ankhon Dekhi (2014), Rajat Kapoor captures a sense of piety and stillness that feels almost heavy, like the stagnant air of North Delhi. At the center is Bauji, played by Sanjay Mishra with a face so expressive it is—in its own weathered way—utterly gorgeous. He lives, works and suffers poetically within the claustrophobic climes of a joint family on the verge of splintering. He has that sudden, storied moment of poetic epiphany: from now on, he will only believe what he sees from his own two eyes! See to believe, as goes the tag line of the movie. Is this the typical unraveling of a midlife crisis, or a journey of self-discovery pushed to extreme? Perhaps it is merely a desperate ploy for attention. As critic Baradwaj Rangan had put it in his review:

Just what is happening here? One theory could be that Bauji is experiencing male menopause, something that’s laughingly suggested by a relative…. Bauji, in other words, is neck-deep in a midlife crisis, and because he cannot buy a Ferrari and bang his secretary, he has found something different to lift his life out of the rut. He has a new “project.”