Dhuin

I like the movies where there is no happy endings. The film that shows the journey and the journey doesn't end. I like it when audience is given their space to think and feel emotions. A background score which flows alongwith your thoughts. Dhuin is a perfect example of this.

Dhuin means fog. The film explains how life goes on, how one keeps chasing their dreams even though everything around them is hazey. Even if you are confused, underconfident, helpless, you got to stay on the course. Everyday is a new beginning but the same struggle.

The film is so perfectly slow that it transcends the feelings of protagonist, within you.

With the dirt, pollution and general wretchedness of Indian small town world, it's hard to portray it in a way that evokes a sense of nostalgia and yearning. This film does that in a way that it truly elevates the style to a new level for Indian films.

Darbhanga is all too human and yet larger than life as a backdrop for this film that takes a serious look at the struggle of youth and ways dreams are dreamt and then shattered on the daily.

However, the tone is not dark or one of hopelessness; it gives a deep "we will live to fight another day" vibe. The dreams are not shattered, they are just kept away in the mind, to be dreamed another day.

All of the tongue in cheek banter between the protagonists against the scale of their reality is wrapped up neatly by the background score that just pushes the film from good to excellent.

I loved everything about this film and I think most film lovers will feel the same way.