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Despite a clunky and messagey closing stretch, Nitesh Tiwari’s film is an engaging mellow-drama
In a late scene in Nitesh Tiwari’s Bawaal, Ajay and Nisha (the married couple played by Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor) play a drinking-game where they reveal things about one another: favourite books, favourite films, that sort of thing. After a while, Ajay points out that they have nothing in common. Nisha, ever the optimist, asks: “But is it necessary to be in agreement all the time?” Put differently, she’s asking if they cannot live happily despite their differences. Extrapolate this idea from a relationship to geopolitics, and we have this really big thought: Yes, we are all different countries, different races – but do those differences have to come in the way of peace and happiness and the basic things that would fit into a suitcase for our limited journey on this earth? Can’t we all just… get along?
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