Director: Shoojit Sircar
Grief and denial share the same kitchen table in I Want to Talk, a father-daughter drama that spends more time on small daily frictions than on hospital scenes.
What is I Want to Talk about?
An advertising executive in India, stubborn and used to controlling every conversation, gets a medical diagnosis that upends the steady rhythm of family life. Rather than dwelling on the illness itself, the story follows how he and his young daughter renegotiate their relationship in the years that follow, through arguments, silences, and the occasional shared joke that cuts through the tension. The film resists melodrama, letting ordinary domestic moments carry the emotional weight instead of speeches or score cues, and it treats the daughter's growing maturity as its own quiet plotline running alongside the father's health.
Cast & crew
Abhishek Bachchan plays the father with a mix of dry humor and stubbornness that keeps the character from feeling like a symbol of illness rather than a person. Ahilya Bamroo, as the daughter across different ages, carries much of the film's emotional shift, while Jayant Kripalani, Kristin Goddard, and Johnny Lever fill out the surrounding circle of doctors, colleagues, and family with lighter, grounding presences.
Context & significance
Director Shoojit Sircar has built a career on Indian dramas that favor restraint over spectacle, often centering ordinary families facing extraordinary circumstances. I Want to Talk continues that approach, unfolding over several years rather than a single crisis point, which lets it track how a relationship changes shape gradually instead of resolving neatly. Its focus on communication, and the difficulty of saying the important things out loud, gives the title its plain, direct meaning.
Where & how to watch
I Want to Talk is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, dubbed and subtitled in Persian so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow every conversation between father and daughter without missing the smaller exchanges that carry the story. The page describing the film is free to browse without logging in; only watching requires an account. K-Time's Farsi-first interface is built for Iranian audiences abroad who want family dramas like this one presented in their own language.