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Travelling through gaya, the otherwise shy driver states in a confident tone “raat mein jaldi waapas aana hoga”. He stopped for a litti on the way. I insisted for one too. The fields were different from the lush green ones in Punjab. They wore an earthy look with hay heaps everywhere.

A look at them and I could see siddharth and geeta from Hazaaron… coming to life. Bright people trying to mould a feudal land into an egalitarian society but ironically, shunned by the seemingly idealistic law enforcers. I liked the movie because it made its point fearlessly clear, agree or disagree. However, the end made me restless; not because it left things undone but the characters couldn’t have survived for long in their new avatars – siddharth with his doctors degree & geeta with her NGO work; a state of unstable equilibrium.

Eventually, they would return to what they always believed in; provided they genuinely believed in the idealistic feudal less world they set out to achieve. If they hadn’t believed in the revolution internally, the message is pointless because the characters are shallow & impressionable.