Are opposites bound to clash or complement each other? In the short film ‘Are We There Yet?’ a couple navigates the complicated nature of coming out, family, mortality, and love.
In a dark room, Naina is fervently finishing up cleaning in a cramped kitchen. She evidently looks frazzled, with her hair in disarray and her gaze going in different directions. Suddenly remembering Sakhi who is busy in her dreamland, still comfortably sleeping, she starts yelling at her to wake up already.
Sakhi who still looks out of it doesn’t bother to get out of her comfortable bed just yet. Instead, she searches for her phone and scrolls. Noticing this, Naina adds that she has been sleeping for too long. Sakhi who doesn’t want to hear more of Naina’s complaints tells her she is up as she begrudgingly untangles herself from her sheets.
As Sakhi finds a seat across her bed as Naina still paces across their small apartment, she asks what they will order. She asks if they will cook or not. Naina, suddenly looks irritated with the question. It is as if she thinks Sakhi is forgetting something important happening that night. She reminds her girlfriend that her (Sakhi’s) father is coming and that they always cook their food together. Sakhi tells her to chill out and adds that her dad always eats home-cooked meals and that is the reason why she is suggesting to order some takeout food for a change. Naina only sighs in reply.
Someone suddenly rings the doorbell which briefly cuts the tension between the couple. While walking towards the door, she tells Sakhi that she has finished preparing the dessert. The delivery man gives her a package. Naina gets annoyed by the pushy delivery man. As he leaves, he requests her to give him 5 stars. As she walks inside, she checks her phone to see the messages she has received from her boss. She curses, looking more agitated and stressed which doesn’t go unnoticed by Sakhi. Naina states with disdain how she hates her boss. Sakhi asks if she is indeed stressed to which Naina replies that of course she is. She is actually surprised that Sakhi isn’t.
Naina makes a beeline towards the kitchen again and begins to remind Sakhi, again, that her father is coming and of the decision they have agreed on together.
Sakhi doesn’t answer and changes the topic, teasing Naina as she sees her let her hair down. Naina however is not amused. She finally shares her true feelings and says that she is not stressed but concerned because she feels that every time they decide to tell Sakhi’s father of their relationship, she thinks that Sakhi is only agreeing for the sake of placating Naina without any sincerity to her promise. Sakhi on the other hand is confused by this because, for her, there is no need to add unnecessary problems to their relationship when they are comfortable and settled down already.
