Where To Watch The New Vidya Balan And Irrfan Khan Movie The Last Tenant

The Last Tenant, a short feature film starring India's most versatile actor Irrfan Khan and Vidya Balan was rediscovered recently has been released online.

Directed and written by Sarthak Dasgupta, the 43-minute film that was produced in the early 2000s was released on YouTube as a way to pay tribute to the late actor Irrfan Khan on his sixth death anniversary.

Though the footage of the film has never been found, the director's recent discovery landed him on a VHS copy of the film that has led to the release online where the two young actors are seen inhibiting the world of The Last Tenant.

An intimate and melancholic drama about a broken musician (Irrfan) who is looking forward to relocating to America, inhabits an empty house where he befriends the ghost of his former ex Maria, played by the brilliant Vidya Balan.

Through the lens of isolation, memory and longing, the low-budget, experimental film that for the longest time remained a long-lost dream for the director who went on to create 200 Halla Ho and Music Teacher was also co-produced with his wife Neena under the banner Salt. Inc.

“Those two souls were Irrfan Khan and Vidya Balan, before the world truly knew their names. The film was thought to be gone forever. The footage, lost. The memory, alive only in those who lived it. Until now,” read the caption on the YouTube page of the movie.

While the director called it "a dream come true", Vidya Balan who first shot to fame on the TV series Hum Paanch said in a statement that the film is "beautiful reminder of where it all began for me, and I’m glad it is being shared as a tribute to him."

Where To Watch The Last Tenant?

The Last Tenant starring Irrfan Khan and Vidya Balan directed by Sarthak Dasgupta can be viewed on YouTube right now which was recently rediscovered on a VHS tape though the original footage has been lost.