Nostalgia...
It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon, I am exhausted from doing nothing. I have been saving the DVD of the movie Lootera for a day like this . Vikramaditya Motwane’s Udaan was an enjoyable film. I was curious to see how a director who had just made one of the best Indian ‘coming off age’ movies could make a high budget period romance, that too with such overwhelming critical acclaim. The movie starts and drags along. I am impressed by the lead pair, frustrated by the pace and disappointed by the direction the film seems to be taking in the second half, then I see the female protagonist lying in her death bed looking out of the window in her room at a tree watching the leaves fall. A Scene from the film Just then I have a flashback, like a bolt from the blue. I am transported to a world that existed 15 years ago. It’s the post lunch session of our class, I am in the seventh grade, Harleen Kaur The girl with a golden tooth is asking me a doubt in algebra, I am am