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Ishaan Khatter and Vishal Jethwa deserve two masala sachets in their maggi packets because yes they ate their characters in the movie. Dialogues by Neeraj Ghaywan and Varun Grover also do justice to all the characters in the story, irrespective of their screentime. Written so beautifully that literally everyone in the story is cut open (not literally) in front of the audience for them to gauge their significance to the plot.

Rated 8 out of 10 on IMDb, the film is now out on Netflix and somehow is not gaining the enough traction, is not a shocker to me because whenever a good project does get it, anyways. But I am not here to sound like an entitled cinephile who disses Bollywood for praising mainstream, mass entertainers (maybe that’s exactly what I am doing right now). I will talk my heart out about this movie, so if you had not watched it already, please skip reading this review, spoiler alert disclaimer could not be that obvious now. 

Being the official nomination from India in the Oscars 2026, the film is about two friends, both coming from the marginalized communities in India. Chandan (Vishal Jethwa) is a dalit-hindu whose parents are daily wage workers and his sister, who had to give up her dream to study further, works at a local school to help the ends meet while Shoaib (Ishaan Khatter) comes from a muslim family and lives with his mother and his handicapped father who is seen pursuing Shoaib to go to Dubai for better work opportunities.

But the boys have very, very different plans for themselves, which is to become a police officer and want to be respectable, which is common for any socially and economically household in a North-Indian village. However, this is when destiny meddles with their plans as Chandan amongst the two boys was able to clear the exam which automatically drew a wedge in their friendship. But this is not the end of their friendship (yes, it is gonna end but hold on it is way more tragic and heartbreaking).

After drifting apart, both the boys find themselves crippled of the opportunities to find a means of livelihood, as Chandan, though he cleared the entrance, learns that there is no official notice to be issued for joining the forces until a whole year and Shoaib joins a water purifier selling company to help pay bills for his father’s knee condition.

Chandan decides to study further and meets Sudha (Janhvi Kapoor) who urges him to continue with his graduation studies but his sister humbles him by making him realise that being the male child of the family he is given a choice to study but she is not. She is subjected to the responsibilities and now she is tired of all the burden. 

Meanwhile, Shoaib, if it is not classic enough, faces a communal discrimination at an office party, despite outstanding every sales person in the office, slowly rising above from the post of just being an office boy which he joined for temporary basis.

He decides to quit the job and soon after, the two friends meet again and destiny puts them far away from their homes, in a different state, in Surat, Gujarat. The boys start off working at a local cloth mill and things start to look better for each of the families. Chandan’s father begins the construction of their dream home whereas Shoaib’s father has his health improving.

The tragedy strikes yet again, and COVID hits, the government announces nation-wide lockdown, mills and factories shut down, streets empty, people locked in their homes, and a whole lot of things go sideways for these two. The boys eventually run out of the savings and decide to go back to their village and be with their families. Despite the struggle to find means of transport to migrate back, they urged a truck driver to help them travel back but Chandan catches a cold and the fellow passengers start to doubt.

They are eventually put off the truck and start their journey on foot with little to no resources with them. And here is when the plot slowly transitions towards the climax which is why you should literally drop everything on your watchlist and give this a watch right away and experience the struggles that these boys go through regardless of any social or economic class you come from.

In its totality, the film will loudly speak to the audience about the deeply rooted societal hierarchy and religion based discrimination. But the intersectionality lies when both of them are denied the opportunities and had to take up the menial and get stuck in the survival jobs to make the ends meet for their families.

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*Ah, here she goes, oversharing on the internet again* Well yes, this is what I am supposed to do when I got no one to talk about that one fictional character with whom I have could not relate anymore! Presenting Fiona Gallagher (played by Emmy Rossum), the eldest daughter in the house, the maverick, the one who is everywhere for everyone, the one who is present, and not selfish, and almost every other thing which a parent is! Except she got no kids of her own. Yes, you read that correct, she is a 20 year old, a high school drop-out, working menial jobs to looks after her 5 siblings, namely Lip, Ian, Carl, Debbie, and Liam, who were abandoned by their parents, Frank and Monica Gallagher (played by William Macy and Chloe Webb). Fiona has been receiving hat considerably on the internet about how she has been constantly messing things up and sabotaging herself and her family, but in reality she is just a 20-something year old WHO DID NOT SIGN UP TO BE A MOTHER OR A PARENT. She was supposed to live her own life, be her own person, and make mistakes and live as carelessly as she wanted without it affecting the others around her. But when you watch Shameless, you eventually realise that Fiona is that one element which kept the show going on. I mean she did try her the ultimate best to keep her family from falling apart which also included messing up sometimes like leaving cocaine around her toddler brother, Liam (played by Christian Isaiah) which when accidently inhaled by him which resulted into getting Fiona arrested for it. Oh and all that happened after she filed for being appointed as the legal guardian for the Gallagher kids as the DCIS was after them leading to them being split up into group homes and foster families. However, Fiona did manage to get out of the jail, after serving time and starting things from the scratch. But as the plot develops further, the kids grow up to be mean and arrogant towards her, especially, Debbie (played by Emma Kenney), as she got pregnant at a very young age and refused to get it aborted after being pursued for it a lot by Fiona. Lip as in 'Phillip' Gallagher (played by Jeremy Allen White) and Ian Gallagher (played by Cameron Monaghan) come at the second position for looking after the family and the household but later on, both of them end up disobeying Fiona, which results into Lip fumbling an MIT admission that he fully got covered through scholarship because he was an exceptionally bright kid from south side of the city and Ian literally ending up in the jail after pleading Insanity. Adding on to how Gallagher kids kept messing up themselves, Carl Gallagher (played by Ethan Cutkosky) gets into trouble with local drug dealers and a criminal and earns boatload of drug money. However, Fiona gets through the tantrums that her siblings throw at her with some support from her neighbour who is also her best friend, Veronica Fisher and Kevin Ball (played by Shanola Hampton and Steve Howey) who, from time to time, look after the Gallagher kids. Although, these two don't serve much to the plotline of the show yet are very important to Fiona.

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Movie: Vivarium Where to watch: Amazon Prime With an attempt at Sci-fi horror, Director Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium with IMDb 5.9/10 is kind of a movie which just good enough to be in that genre yet as a critique or as someone who has watched boat load of Sci-fi horror will be left unsatisfied with the writing and execution of this movie. Gemma, a kindergarten teacher (played by Imogen Poots) is dating Tom, a gardener (played by Jesse Eisenberg) and the couple is planning to move in together and so to serve the purpose, are looking for an ideal “home” in an ideal neighbourhood.

The performances by Poots and Eisenberg are commendable enough which literally does bring out the best from the script. The set design of the movie does give “fake-but-real” vibe to the viewers which imparts an idea to the masses watching the movie that Tom and Gemma are indeed trapped in a sick experiment by Martin, their real-estate agent (played by Jonathan Aris).

Martin takes Tom and Gemma to a neighborhood where all the houses are the spitting photocopies of each other, which is rather unsettling to the viewers yet goes unquestioned by wither of our main protagonists. Martin shows around the property no. 9 to the couple and amidst it he disappears, leaving Tom and Gemma behind. Soon the couple discovers that they have been abandoned and are trapped in the neighborhood after having circled around it in an attempt to get out of the place but fail miserably and eventually run out of the fuel.

Their human psyche accepts the situation at the hand soon and began to look for the solutions to this problem, such as writing “HELP” on the roof as a sign for someone to catch up on but sooner they notice that no aircraft seem to pass by. Not much later in the movie, they receive a box full of groceries and another box with a child in it. This scene brings back the viewers to the point when Martin mentions to the couple that the property is perfect for starting a family and asks Gemma too if they have any kids of their own.

Along with a child in the box, comes an instruction which says “raise the child and be free” and by this point of time, the couple has just accepted the reality of the things and move on with it, but does not stop for the ways to escape this hellhole. Certain elements of the writing make the viewers realize that the smallest of the small things such as air we breathe and the food, we consume are not fake such as when Tom expresses his feelings to Gemma how he misses the air used to feel like before this place.

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I am in awe with how beautifully executed this is and what performances by the actors!

The mini series is based on the life of a 19 year old girl, named Esther Shapiro (played by Shira Haas), who is abandoned by her mother and lives with her paternal grandparents, her aunt and her father who is an irresponsible parent and a drunkard. Her family marries her off to a guy from her the most conservative Jewish community based in the Williamsburg neighbourhood of the Brooklyn city, New York.

What she believed her marriage to be, a beautiful and a new start to her life, it turned out to be a complete opposite. But that does not stop Esther from wanting to create herself a life that she truly wanted to live. The writing of the show has to be applauded because I witnessed one of the most brilliantly written character development arc. The series depicts Esther's story in parallels. A front where Esther is looking forward to her life after marriage, and the one where she is on a run, escaping from her conservative in-laws and her community. Down the plot, she meets her mother who is a lesbian and lives with her girlfriend in Berlin, Germany, the last place on the earth where a jew would want to be, that itself in it is a beautiful irony of the show. Esther meets a group of college students who are pursuing music at Berlin's Conservatory of Music where she becomes hell bent on getting a scholarship which was meant for the students from around the globe who are "stuck in a very special circumstances" and are extremely talented.

Now Esther, does have a knack for the music as she is seen to be drawn towards learning piano, when she was in Brooklyn, but that does not work out for her, which she had to learn the hard way through a friend who almost insulted and demeaned her performance while she performed for the first time in front of her friends.

Here in Brooklyn, her family and community are planning on to hunt down Esther and have appointed Moishe, who is Esther's husband's, Yanky (Yakov Shapiro, played by Amit Rahav), cousin. Moishe and Yanky learn that Esther is in Germany and eventually find her there. But throughout this manhunt, Yanky transformed into something completely different from what he was shown in a parallel where Esther wedded him.

Towards the end, when Moishe finds Esther and warns her that even though she felt suppressed in that marriage, she had basic amenities like food and a shelter over her head and she is missing out on these if she continues to live with her mother here in Germany. But Yanky pursues her to come back with him to Brooklyn and that he promises to change for her, but Esther's reality has been re-written by herself and she no longer wanted to return.

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Heeramandi review - Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s debut on Netflix.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is known in the B-town for his grandeur and massive sets and exceptional traditional costumes and most definitely a love story filled with tragedy. And the audience will find all of these elements in this series. However, the eight-episode long series fails to give a story, impactful enough for the masses to remember when it comes to comparing with his previous movies such as Ramleela, Padmavat and Bajirao Mastani. 

Herramandi is set in the late 1920s, in the city of Lahore, where the “tawaif” (courtesan) culture was famous and was practically a huge deal back in the day. These tawaifs had nawabs (Viceroys/patrons) under their thumbs and used to get their jobs done as these courtesans were famous for their performances in singing, dancing, and seducing too which were enjoyed by these nawabs of the princely states, such as Lahore itself. 

The tawaifs in the series, namely Mallika Jaan (played by Manisha Koirala) who is the lead courtesan and a sort of a matriarch, her two daughters namely Bibbo and Alamzeb (played by Aditi Rao Hyadri and Sharmin Segal), her sister, Waheeda Jaan (played by Sanjeeda Sheikh) and her sister’s daughter, Shama (played by Pratibha Ranta) and an adopted daughter of Mallika Jaan, Laajwanti (played by Richa Chaddha), live in a mansion, called Shahi Mahal, which was gifted to Mallika Jaan by one of her past suitors. 

Mallika Jaan rules over this palace and wants everyone to address her as Huzoor and right across her mansion, lives her rival who is also her cousin, Rehanna’s daughter, Fareedan (played by Sonakshi Sinha). Now the plot, up until the third episode, revolves around the lives of these courtesans and the nawabs visiting them. The notable nawabs of the series are Walee Mohammad (Bibbo’s main patron and played by Fardeen Khan), Zulfikar (Mallika’s main patron, played by Shekhar Suman) and Zorawar (played by Adhyayan Suman). 

The plot develops further with an angle of these courtesans rising up against the cruel britishers, who colonized India (and present day Pakistan) as Bibbo, one of the shahi mahal’s tawaif, is a part of a rebellious group who are planning to attack a certain police station which was in charged under Superintendent Alastair Cartwright, who later becomes a patron to Fareedan. The overall writing of the series did not sit right with me as the screenplay does not seem strong enough and possibly convincing enough for the audience to make them not give up on the show after watching maybe a couple of episodes.

Mallika is almost Miranda Priestly on MDMA and is a total control-freak, hungry for money and power who is hell-bent on making her daughter, Alamzeb, a tawaif, which was the last thing that Alam wanted to happen with her fate. But later in the series, Mallika is raped by the police officers, in exchange of Alam’s bail, as she was arrested and was charged of plotting a rebellion with Taajdaar (played by Taha Shah Badusshah). Taajdaar is Alam’s love interest and also a part of the same rebellious group as Bibbo’s. 

It is important to note here, with the context that Alam does not want to end up like her mother but is still forced to become a tawaif, Bibbo points it out to the audience that whatever these courtesans do, be it singing, dancing ad even sleeping with the patrons, they do it with their free will. Incidents like this one points out the weak writing of the script and an unacceptable duality of it. Bhansali has taken aestheticism to a next level with the set designs and commendable costumes, but it was not enough to save the show and rather has become a disappointment for Bhansali fans.

If you continue to watch past 3 episodes, I would assume that you have developed a high tolerance towards the crap that life has been throwing at you. Yes, I mean it because Heeramandi is that bad. 

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Movie review: Pieces of a woman (2020) - Dir. Kornél Mundruczó

A gut wrenching representation of a journey of a woman, full of grief, who faced the loss of her child right after the birth and a series of traumatizing events following it.

A commendable job done by Vannessa Kirby, who plays Martha Weiss, our main character who decides to undergo a home-birth and appoints a midwife, namely Eva Woodward (played by Molly Parker) for helping her and her husband, Sean Carson (played by Shia LaBeouf) with the safe delivery of their child. But things go haywire when after the delivery the baby dies due to some medical complications and it obviously is seen as the midwife’s fault.

Vanessa Kirby has perfectly understood the assignment and almost has blended herself with Martha, the way Martha thinks and takes actions, which in-turn appeals to the viewers to empathize with her journey of processing the grief of the loss of her child. The Visual metaphors such as chipped black nail paint and messy hair, the camera angle capturing her neck, all show her state of mind where she either tries to cope up or is just deeply confused, amidst a courtroom hearing, when she is forced by her mother, Elizabeth Weiss (played by Ellen Burstyn) to agree to a trial against the midwife. 

A great example of symbolism is seen in the movie when Martha’s husband, who had very different ways to show and process grief which was through anger and rebellion, makes Martha internalize her pain and she is shown deflating an exercise ball which does implicate that she does not feel the space to express her pain, emotions and grief in her toxic marriage, and so the ball goes on deflating just like her, becoming devoid of emotions. 

In the second half of the movie, after the child’s death and Martha still figuring out how to process the loss, the apple seeds are used as another symbol as her decision to embark on a journey of re-awakening and buys a book on sprouting seeds. But the seeds do not sprout yet which symbolize that she has still not come to the terms of her grief and later on in the courtroom scene, she boldly accepts that Eva did not harm the child intentionally and that she is not to blame for her child’s death. 

The film also shows various timelines and dates with a background of a bridge which is not completely constructed yet from the middle, and this piece of symbolism is used to show Martha’s efforts to come to terms with her family’s ways of handling things on her behalf.

And in the climax, we see a beautiful bloomed tree bearing apples and a little girl trying to climb it to get her favorite apple. That is a kind of a scene left for the audience to analyze that Martha is now finally happy and things are finally falling into place.

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Complexities of Motherhood ft. We need to talk about Kevin (dir. Lynne Ramsay) SPOILER ALERT!!

We, as a society, have always pictured motherhood, a role in a woman's life which absolutely has no faults and rather great things are expected when you are in the shoes of a mother. And that is exactly what our female lead, Eva (played by Tilda Swinton), tries to achieve. But is there any possibility in any universe where a mother fails? It is rather a rhetorical question in the case of this movie as Eva, despite of her insecurities and with the flooding responsibilities of being a mother, tries her best to not fail as a parent.

A successful and renowned writer, Eva, decides to settle down, get married and finally start a family with her lover, Franklin (played by John C. Riley). Well, they get things going on for them and eventually Eva gets pregnant with their first child yet after birthing the baby and name him as Kevin. She is portrayed extremely discontented and rather insecure which goes unnoticed by Franklin but somehow her first-born learns about this as if it was passed down to him through genetics. And from then onwards, the baby is extremely inclined towards his father. Despite all of this, Eva genuinely tries to build a connection with her son yet the boy would just not respond and rather makes her life difficult by being an annoying toddler.

This annoying behaviour is continued throughout the movie, by the boy, in different stages of growth starting from being a toddler. When the boy is of 6-7 years of age, Eva tries to toilet-train him as the child still relies on wearing diapers, which is unusual for his age, and she keeps on changing and cleaning him. Some other instances include of the time when Eva gets triggered and she just picks him up throws him across the room.

The boy gets hit by the wall and that results into a fracture. The child is obviously confronted by his father about the whole incident and he straight up lies to him and does not tell the truth about what his mother did to him and rather holds a leverage against his mother and eventually making her do whatever he wants. Even after getting hit by the wall and breaking his arm, the boy does not even flinch or burst into tears, he is eerily silent and smirks at Eva, which seemed too psychotic for a kid to be. Also, around this time, the couple welcomes another child into their lives, a baby girl, of whom, Kevin grows incredibly insecure because his parents' attention will now be divided.

The child grows up into a teenager (played by Ezra Miller) and certainly his behaviours too grow more problematic. By this time, Kevin has begun his killing spree and targets his sister's pet animal, which is a Guinea Pig and stuffs the dead animal into the kitchen sink's pipeline, which is eventually discovered by Eva. Finally, after realising, noticing and tolerating his behaviours, she decides to talk to her husband, with whom she is discussing a separation and an end to their marriage too.

Towards the climax of the movie, Kevin is seen using bicycle traps to shut the doors of his school's gymnasium and trapping several students inside, including himself. He kills each one of them using his bow and arrow, which was gifted by his father as his birthday present which results in his arrest, obviously. When Eva learns about all of this she first rushes to the school and witnesses her son getting taken away by the cops and immediately rushes back to her home where she finds out that her husband and her daughter were Kevin's first human victims.

To avoid making this blog too graphic, I have not added some disturbing bits of the movie. But if you are someone who loves and enjoys watching psychological thrillers, this should be on your watchlist!

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Is it just me or he is screaming his lungs out for real???

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Depiction of love Ft. Indian Cinema.

There are just so many variations of the perception of love across the cultures around thee world, but let us dive into Indian perception through these Bollywood films. The featured movies are The Sky is Pink, Ok Jaanu, and October (from top to bottom).

Now everybody knows that internet is filled with content which says that love is not a bed of roses but rather of thorns, but as a 90s kid, who has grown up watching romantic movies where there is typical hero-heroine battling against heroine's egoistic and villainous father trope, I would like to share how Bollywood's perception of a love story has changed over the course of time and these movies, may or may not have done well on the box office, but surely has been an evidence for the same.

The Sky is Pink, starring Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar, starts off as a story about a family which is of 4 members and the daughter of the family (named Aisha, played by Zaira Wasim), being the most beloved and the light of the family, is suffering from SCID (Severe and Combined Immunodeficiency disease) which is, apparently, life threatening.

Now the family has a son too, played by Rohit Saraf, who necessarily does not contribute to the movie's plot, and hence, the movie mostly revolves around the mother, the father and the daughter. And later on after Aisha's death, the movie is mostly about the couple, figuring out how to deal with Aisha's death, absence and hollowness her death created in their relationship. For the most part, this movie is believed to be about Aisha and her struggles with the SCID, but in a broader perspective, it is about a couple figuring out life, love, relationship, decisions for their daughter, and apparently each other under stressful situations.

While throwing light on Ok Jaanu (the second picture), it is a movie about typical adrenaline junkies, Adi and Tara (played by Aditya Roy Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor) who hate the idea of settling down and marriages and rather sticking to one person for their entire lives, but after having spending time with each other and flourishing in each other's presence and obviously falling in love with not just each other, but literally with the dynamics that they both have cultivated. Bollywood speculated the idea of live-in relationships with this movie and blatantly dumping the idea of love at first sight.

October, being the closest to me of all three, typically is not a love story like the other two mentioned in this blog, but maybe a story about love. Dan and Shiuli (played by Varun Dhawan and Banita Sandhu) are colleagues and also classmates who have graduated a hotel management school together, develop an attraction towards each other which was not yet confessed by either of them, but they enjoyed each other's company. However, the tragedy occurs on the night of new year's eve when Shiuli loses balance, in an attempt to sit on the edge of the terrace where the party was organised, and accidently falls off of it.

This leads to her being in a comatose state. Now, for Dan, it was remarkable that before meeting with an accident, Shiuli specifically asked about where he was and why is not he at the party. When Dan learnt about her accident, he decides to stay with her until she regains her consciousness and comes out of the coma, only to tell her where was he on that new year's eve when she asked for him. Now if that is not a love with devotion for you, I don't know what is.

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Movie review: Apurva Survival thrillers are usually depicted as stretched and boring until the movie progresses to the climax. But Apurva, despite the movie becoming predictable in the half-way through it, keeps the audience hooked and conveys hard enough that appeal lies in the journey rather than the destination. Being a road survival thriller which is flooded with crime and drama, the set of the movie is a ruins of an abandoned village in Madhya Pradesh, where one can easily get lost with no sign of life. The female protagonist (played by Tara Sutaria) Apurva, is held hostage while on her journey to Agra from Gwalior in order to surprise her fiancé (played by Dhairya Karwa) by 4 local gangsters who decide to rape and murder her. These gangsters are played by Rajpal Yadav, Sumit Gulati, and Abhishek Bannerjee, who get into a road rage with the bus driver of the very same bus that Apurva takes for her journey. As the plot develops further, Apurva decides to take on these criminals and to not bow down in front of them by executing each one of them. Tara Sutaria is usually known for her glamorous performances in Bollywood but with this one, it seems she has stepped out of her comfort zone and has served the audience with rather a role embedded with grit and wit. It becomes absolutely alluring for the audience to witness what happens when 4 cunning criminals, nothing less than that of monsters, go against a delicate girl living a simple and slow life.

OTT: Disney + Hotstar

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Bramayugam: the age of madness This movie, simply put, is a tale of darkness, dominance and death If western cinema culture (mostly Hollywood) is known for movies based on satanic cult practices, Indian cinema has to offer folk horror from different parts of the country. After movies like Tumbbad, Bramayugam is also set in a timeline of 17th century where Indian society strictly followed the casteist practices and believed in witchcraft and ghosts. As the plot develops further, the movie becomes nothing but an essence of power dynamics between the main characters who portray a patriarch, a cook who belongs to a socially lower caste and a refuge who also belongs to a lower caste (referred to as Paanan in the movie) and is a singer.

The patriarch is played by Mammooty whereas Arjun Ashokan played the singer and the Cook has been played by Siddhartha Bharathan. The patriarch and the cook are living in a mansion located in a forest and our Paana, who attempted an escape from his tyrant ruler, seeks a refuge in this mansion. Later he finds out that the mansion is not only cursed, mysterious and dark but also holds sinister truths about the Patriarch himself. Had this been an average or a below average movie, art direction would have been a great save for it, but since movie did well and is liked by the culturally diverse sets of Indian audiences, art direction by Jothish Shankar is just the perfect icing on the cake. Bramayugam must go on your watchlist if you love a good folk horror. OTT platform: Sony Liv

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Me reasoning out with my higher self before sniffing last line after being clean for 1 week.

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Me and the guy I pulled by being silly ass girl on the internet and being a weirdo IRL.

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Hear me out, if you are someone who enjoys enemies-to-lovers lore, you must not miss out on this one!!! Beef, a Netflix original starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun who played Amy Lau and Danny Cho, respectively, starts off with an episode where two of them get into a road rage and the beauty of it is that the rage and the hate for each other never subsided. A24 productions has done a tremendous job with this project, with the techniques of cinematography with the screenplay being written so beautifully. A couple episodes will feel a bit slow but if you decide to sit through it and make it to the last episode, an emotional rollercoaster and humorous dialogue writing will be waiting for you which will make you want more of the story about these two characters. This can make a perfect watch for your weekend or for something which is not longer than a season or 10 episodes.

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Back with a short review of this beautiful and compelling movie that I watched recently! Sometimes a movie or an episode make you feel the depth of the human emotions and that is beautifully done and depicted by Sriram Raghavan. Personally, it felt as if the casting done for this movie was the master stroke as Katrina seemed like she has completely devoted herself to Sriram's way of story-telling and Vijay Sethupathi's character showed a perfect mix of the chaos and balance. The movie typically fits the category of slow burning thrillers with a jaw-dropping climax and compels the audience to empathize with both the characters. The chemistry between the two actors was the icing on the cake and undoubtedly elevates the viewer's experience.

The soundtrack of the movie is something which is going to be on your playlist for quite a while, which also shows that the movie does not boast of the big screenplay techniques rather is easy-going and lets the audience to analyse and soak in the plot quite comfortably. With current IMDb rating, 7.7/10, this movie deserves a place on your watchlist for the weekends.