Updated On: 15 October, 2021 07:35 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
What explains this sensational climb? The fact that nothing that you’ve watched on Indian TV/films captures for its urbane/metropolitan audiences the lives of the living-in/dating young in the same way.

Mithila Palkar and Dhruv Sehgal in Little Things Season 4
The first episode of the final season of Little Season reveals the two lead characters — Kavya (Mithila Palkar) and Dhruv (Dhruv Sehgal (also the original writer of the show) — vacationing in the backwaters of Kerala. But they’re not so much at ease, in each other’s company, which they otherwise can’t get enough anyway.
While you think (or at least I did) that this may have something to do with loss of chemistry between the actors, over time — it turns out, this onscreen discomfort is deliberate, since the two have only just returned from a long-distance relationship, lasting over a year.