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Release date- 27th May 2016
One word which describes the film- 'Coming to terms with'
Best Dialogue- Kalki- 'I have 5680 followers on Twitter and when I need someone, how many people are with me, ZERO.'
Naseer-'What is Twitter ?'
Genre- Drama/ Comedy
Direction - Anu Menon
Cast- Naseeruddin Shah, Kalki Koechlin, Rajat Kapoor
Budget- 6 Crores approximately including P & A
All of us who have read Erich Segal's, 'Love Story' must remember this phrase, 'Love means never having to say you're sorry'. But what if you have to and don't get the chance to say Sorry?
This film is about two people finding solace in each other's company while waiting for their spouses to recover.
Though the full film is shot in or around the waiting room of a hospital, it's not at all about sickness or misery.
It's about how two people, poles apart from each other, influence each other and help the other to fight grief.
Kalki is The Pretty Young thing, who is popular on Facebook and Twitter, uses F words in every sentence and is closer to her friends than family. She gets a reality check when she is all alone at the most difficult time of her life.
Naseeruddin Shah is the retired professor whose wife is his only family. He is ready to save her life at any cost.
There are small incidents in the film through which the director has tried to show how lives of people change when they start sharing their inner fears and thoughts with others.
Like Naseeruddin Shah in the start of the film is shown wide awake even before his clock alarm rings. Then in the next scene when he is a bit relaxed, he sleeps peacefully and is woken up by the alarm. Later, when he is troubled by uncertainty, he is nervously sitting on his bedside when the alarm goes off.
Both the characters enrich each other with their lifestyle.
First we see Kalki trying to explain to the old professor what Twitter is. She says it's like a notice board where we post our thoughts and then others comment on it, with the final goal of increasing followers.
A puzzled professor asks her, what's the purpose of it?
Then later Kalki asks him how he is so cool about the situation and he explains to her how their whole condition can be divided into five phases of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance and when you reach the last phase of the situation you become 'Zen'.
He teaches an atheist Kalki how faith is a good coping device and just changing sides once in a while can be good for one's peace of mind.
Once Kalki confesses that,'I just realised that in a country of 1 billion, you are the only one who gets me and you don't know what 'Twitter' is.
So what is 'lovely' for the old professor is 'hot' for the young girl. Though by the end even Kalki is surprised when the shy professor uses the 'F' word.
Apart from the bond the two central characters develop with each other, the film also deals with Doctor-patient relationships, and how the patient's family members start questioning the doctor's decisions when they are not in sync with their expectations.
Rajat Kapoor, the doctor in charge of taking final decisions, is sometimes calm and sometimes in anger when he tries to make the family members explain that his job is to take the best decision for his patients. He is very endearing when he trains a junior doctor on how to impart news to the patient's family members.
There are so many similar moments in the film which make it such a refreshing and delightful watch. In a line, the film explores the different levels of human relations in such a simple way that at places we identify ourselves with the central characters.
If you believe in love and relationships then you must watch this film. Good one time watch.
