Kolkata Girls: Pandals, Plates & Pyaar

They were supposed to go viral. They caught feelings instead.When Ishu Dasgupta, Kolkata's chaos-powered food creator, lands a Durga Puja sponsorship she never asked for, she expects free atta, endless pandal hopping, and maybe a few thousand extra followers.She does not expect Rukmoni Bora.Rukmoni is a relentlessly professional TV reporter with laminated rundowns, crisp white kurtas, and a habit of signing every message with "- R." She likes schedules, control, and keeping her private life exactly that-private.Ishu likes none of those things.Forced together for a five-day Puja collaboration, they spend Shashthi to Dashami fighting over camera angles, pronunciation, food, sponsors, schedules, and basically every decision known to humanity.Then a candid video goes viral.Suddenly the internet thinks they're a couple.Their sponsor wants more chemistry.Their families start asking questions.And the line between performance and reality becomes impossible to find.Between crowded pandals, committee aunties, fish fry shared behind pillars, late-night taxi rides, accidental intimacy, and one very public disaster involving a brand campaign that should never have existed, Ishu and Rukmoni must decide whether they want to keep performing for everyone else-or finally be honest with themselves.Set against the vibrant madness of Kolkata's Durga Puja, Pandals, Plates & Pyaar is a slow-burn sapphic romance packed with food, festivals, found family, viral chaos, emotional vulnerability, and two women discovering that the scariest thing isn't being watched by millions of people-it's being truly seen by one person.