Dil Bechara - This sadness will last forever

Dil BecharaOn Disney HotstarDirector Mukesh ChhabraCast Sushant Singh Rajput Sanjana SanghiThis is the sort of romantic tragedy that inevitably kicks off careers of the leads starring in it To the point that they really never have to look back from thereon Its set among lead characters in their early 20s floating in younglove yet with a base of death underneath it allThink Hrithik Roshan in Kaho Naa Pyar Hai 2000 if you like or say Aamir Khan in Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak 1989 much before The male lead in this movie was around 3334 during the filmingmdash which is just as old as Shah Rukh Khan his selfconfessed inspiration from movies was in the campus romance Kuch Kuch Hota Hai 1998Heres another thing about melancholic scripts such as these hinged on movielike innocenceideas of first kiss first love etcmdashtheyre actually age agnostic Sure men in particular might pretend otherwise while Im pretty sure after this theyll click on the teenyweeny Kissing Booth 2 thats just dropped online A good romance is as criticproof as a topnotch actionerFor far too long weve often reductively weighed films by stars in their reviews They make no sense here also because the star in this moviemdashabove all the five on a scalemdashis the late Sushant Singh Rajput He plays superfan of Superstar RajinikanthThe setting is the steel town of Jamshedpur The script is crisply simple and sorted wasting no time getting to the point and without excessively running around trees thereafter The director Mukesh Chhabra with a solid body of work in the casting department doesnt seem like a firsttimer at any momentBut most importantly this is composerarranger AR Rahman in fine form after rather long This could arguably be his best album since Delhi 6 2009 Please read arguably in allcaps though Rahmans music can only be loved or discarded after its played on loop a minimum ten times already Havent done that with his music lately Just that this soundtrack is so viscerally accessible it enters your bloodstream right away And yes it will play on and stay there for some time for sureWatch the trailer of Dil Bechara hereThis story itself is borrowed from the superhit The Fault In Our Stars 2014 based on a John Green novel of the same name Maybe for the local flavourconnect which will always draw desis in in ways that Hollywood cantmdashthis one feels altogether softer and perhaps more bhaalo shottiThat touch of softness is there in all the surrounding charactersmdashfrom the Bengali Basus Swastika Mukherjee Saswata Chatterjee the heroines parents to Dr Jha Sunit Tandon Even Saif Ali Khan in a cameo as a musicianmdashdressed up lookingbehaving like Bono supposedly obnoxious still somewhat saccharineAt the centre of course is the boy Manny Rajput and the girl Kizie Sanjana Sanghi outstanding choice for a debutmdashKizie Aur Manny being this films originalworking title The former apparently being a Zambian word for one that stays with youAlso ReadRhea Chakraborty Gets Emotional Before Dil Bechara Release Shares Touching NoteYou know at the outset this is a weepy set to sweep you off your feetmdashmuch like the lead characters are into each other Theyre both terminally ill Its a question of who will pass on first While that might be true for every socalled eternal couple in the worldmdashthe underlying pathos of days being numbered by a disease is a ticking clock thats hard to shut your ears fromAnd yet these two give life a chance Because unlike the idiotic phrase YOLO you actually only die oncemdashyou live every day until that point Yes this is a film entirely about death With the lead actor Rajput who died just over a month before the films releaseRajput in fact kept going back to scripts where his character diesmdashover a pretty short career if you notice right from his debut Kai Po Che 2013 to Kedarnath 2018 Sonchiriya 2019 His last release while he was alive Chhichhore 2019 was in many ways wholly an antisuicide awareness movie a step Rajput himself allegedly took only nine months laterThere are so many overt and coded references to death including death by suicide all through this movie that Im just waiting for Internet to explode pointing out references and ironies making this far more a metaphysical an experience than all of Rajputs selfmusings put together Already a friend I can see on Twitter has spotted Rajput wearing a Tshirt that has Help written on it There is a line in the film We cant decide when were going to die Well he didAlso ReadReasons Why Sushant Singh Rajputs Dil Bechara Promises To Be A MustWatchHave we ever been through a similar blurring of lines between true life and cinema with regard to an actor on screen whos no more Not to this extent Maybe Paul Walker most recently came close with Fast And Furious Felt sort of the same when I watched Angrezi Medium 2020 knowing Irrfans health condition when the film opened in theatresLikewise I guess audiences back in 1988 wouldve gone through a lump in the throat with Waaris the film where Rekha dubbed for the lead actor Smita Patils voice because she passed away at 31 while the film was being madeWatched Dil Bechara with my parents at their home before a family screenmdashCOVID19 and Rajputs death seemed to have united us for a film premiere which is otherwise work for me Surely millions across India wouldve done something similar sharp at 730 pm Friday making this Rajputs and in fact any moviestars mostwatched First Day First Show everCertainly better pushed than Rajputs Drive 2019 that was forcedriven to a digital release despite theatres being operational And Sonchiriya that was killed with a redub and pathetic marketing even before release Thats the journey every other artiste goes through in some form or the otherThe parallel strain in this pictures plot concerns a musician Saif whos left his song halffinished and exited the scene entirely This person as he writes over email is not good with articulating certain thoughts in words Why is the song incomplete the heroine really needs to know Why did he leave Sushants audiences wonder too sadly The sadness of this film will last foreverAlso ReadSushant Singh Rajput Fans Are Rallying Together To Make Dil Bechara The Biggest Digital Hit EverCatch up on all the latest entertainment news and gossip here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest news

Dil Bechara - This sadness will last forever

Dil Bechara
On: Disney+ Hotstar
Director: Mukesh Chhabra
Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Sanjana Sanghi

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Dil Bechara
On: Disney+ Hotstar
Director: Mukesh Chhabra
Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Sanjana Sanghi