Indian Matchmaking

If there was no rat race everybody would be free, says Ravi Dubey

Dil Bechara.

Taking to Instagram, Kriti penned an emotional note for Sushant, sharing how does she feel seeing the latter in his last movie. “It’s not seri (ok) And it will never sink in..This broke my heart..again. In Manny, I saw YOU come alive in so so many moments. I knew exactly where you had put in a bit of yourself in the character..And as always, your most magical bits were your silences.. those bits where you said nothing and yet you said so much,” Kriti wrote.

Directed by Mukesh Chhabra, Dil Bechara, which released a few days ago on the OTT platform, is the official remake of 2014 Hollywood romantic drama The Fault in our Stars, based on John Green's popular novel of the same name. It also stars debutante actress Sanjana Sanghi in the lead role. “@castingchhabra I know this film will always mean a lot more to you than what we had thought.. you made us feel too many emotions in your first! Wish you and @sanjanasanghi96 a beautiful journey ahead,”

Kriti added. Kriti was rumoured to be in a relationship with Sushant. The two even starred in the film Raabta. —IANS avi Dubey says if there was no rat race ever ybody would be free, creating the stuff that artistes believe in. The actor recently penned a poem titled Aankde, which translates to “numbers”. Where did Ravi find inspiration to write a poem on this subject? “In the past few months, all of us have gone through collective experiences. They have stirred us emotionally. They have pointed inwards and all us started looking within ourselves, especially artistes. We have all begun to question ourselves, asking ‘are we truly on the right path? Are we truly engaged in our craf t and in our art as we were on the very first day when we came into this industr y? Or, has the number game got to us?’,” Ravi said.

The actor, who has worked in shows like Qubool Hai, JamaiRaja and KumkumBhagya among many others, says he was wondering what the deadlock was that seemed too hard to break in an artiste’s life. “I personally came to the conclusion that it is this number game, it is this rat race. If there was no race, everybody would have been just so free and would be creating the stuff they believed in, that their gut told them,” he said. Ravi said once the number game takes over, then “survival tactics come into play”, adding, “And then, you just keep going with that. So, there were these thoughts that I kept having on and off, which inspired me to write this poem, Aankde,” he added. —IANS

Rwith.

The first season of the show is split into eight moderately long episodes that don’t really manage to capture the same intensity all through. This is largely because many narratives are scattered and lopsided, and ends rather abruptly.

You probably would want to give brownie points for the immaculate cinematography, as the visuals are nothing short of speculator and offers a surreal vibe of the cityscape of Delhi, Mumbai and America. The show might evoke twinges of envy among watchers who’d wish they had the spate of options these successful bachelors do.

Peppered with a streak of regressiveness and teamed with the concept of meeting new people; the show fails to pack a punch or rather sustain the intrigue that it first arouses. The trinkets of wisdom by old couples that pop at the start of an episode are amusing, to say the least.

Case in point: The show touches a part of our reality, that we often tend to put on the backburner: Loneliness. The yearning for someone worthwhile to spend our lives with, failing which everything eventually loses its purpose. As much as urban India loves its space, there is always room for love, even if its arranged.

C’mon, you want a matchmaker too, don’t you?

—Review by Pooja Prabbhan