Because even before you have entered the theatre, you and the filmmaker are in two different corners. Watching a remake, whose original you found middling, can get quite tedious. Shaad Ali’s latest, Ok Jaanu, starring Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor, is a remake of O Kadhal Kanmani. The film, however, was fairly unremarkable, uplifted to a large extent by Salman, whose performance was everything a romantic drama needs: goofy, charming, endearing. We are individuals first, partners later, suggested O Kadhal Kanmani – a relatively novel and engaging idea. Adi wants to mint money in the US Tara wants to study in Paris. The film’s pair, Adi (Dulquer Salman) and Tara (Nithya Menen), considers marriage a distraction. Mani Ratnam’s 2015 romantic drama O Kadhal Kanmani tried capturing the pulse of that young India, which is forever restless and famished, craving nothing but newness. ![]() In that case, all you need to do is look and move. And no one wants to fade, especially not when the night is young, people are younger, promises are flexible and a better something always around the corner. Because not moving is stopping and stopping is fading. ![]() You’re changing apartments, partners, jobs, even lifestyles. ![]() You’re constantly moving – both physically and emotionally. Urban living, especially in recent times, has come to symbolise change.
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