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2020 brought Sushant Singh Rajput, Dev Patel and A Suitable Boy to your Home
In a year of being marooned at home, our televisions and our laptops became family, giving us solace and comfort and the laughs we desperately needed. Our streaming services were especially cherished as they ensured the latest blockbusters and hot serials came to us when we couldn’t go to the theaters. Right after the much loved Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput passed away suddenly, his last film released after his death was not shown at theaters which were in shutdown due to the pandemic – it was streamed free by Disney to all his grieving fans. Dil Bechara was watched by millions around the world in their own homes, a very personal memorial where each mourned alone.
A look at some of the home streamed films and series which helped us survive quarantine and social distancing.
Dil Bechara
A Bittersweet Farewell to Sushant Singh Rajput
Movies are supposed to be entertainment, time pass. Rarely do they become living memorials to a lost love, a philosophical pondering on the meaning of life and death, and the object of copious tears shed by really heartbroken people. Unless it happens to be Dil Bechara and the hero happens to be Sushant Singh Rajput, the much loved rising star who died on June 14 at the age of 34, leaving behind millions of stunned fans. How and why he died continues to torment film-lovers.
So it is no surprise that Dil Bechara , his last film, released after his death, has become a pilgrimage spot for fans from across the world, a chance to bid a final goodbye. The film is almost a necessity, a memorial which will bring some closure. As fans grieve and call for justice, I could not help thinking it was a generous – and smart – move by Disney/Hotstar to stream this movie free and donate this last memory to the public. I liked the idea that anyone with a mobile phone could watch this film, be it a rag-picker or a vegetable seller. It seems a democratic way to pay final tribute to the people’s star.
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Dil Bechara – A Bittersweet Farewell to Sushant Singh Rajput
Dev Patel, a David Copperfield for our Times – A Review
Need some hope, need some laughter in hard times? Watch ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’. This might sound counter-intuitive – because isn’t Charles Dickens about hardship and tragedy? Yes, there’s plenty of poverty and child labor and despair, cheats and charlatans, mean bullies and unfairness – times very like our own.
Yet there’s also hope, kindness and caring from unexpected quarters. And the fact that people can come together to oust a tyrant – yes, times very like our own. And always there’s humor – hardships seem to go down better with a nice chilled half-pint of wit.
Dev Patel, a David Copperfield for our Times – A Review
The Great Indian Matchmaking Drama Comes to Netflix
Man has been to the moon but is still stymied in solving that most ubiquitous problem – finding a suitable spouse! This worldwide stress is particularly common amongst Indians and the Indian Diaspora because for them marriage is the very basic of a good life. Parents start dreaming of their kids’ marriages as soon as they utter their first words. It becomes the end-game of all their efforts.
So not surprising that Netflix has Indian Matchmaking on its mind as it caters to the huge Indian Diaspora now – it’s a topic millions of its viewers know and yearn for instinctively. Indian Matchmaking, the new series is part docu-drama, part reality show and says in a more realistic way what Bollywood fans have known forever – relationships count!
The Great Indian Matchmaking Drama Comes to Netflix
Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy via Mira Nair
– A Good Match!
ASuitable Boy has been with us for decades, in our hearts, the gift of everyone’s favorite author Vikram Seth. This global best-seller clocks in at 1349 pages and is one of the most beloved novels about a post-independence India.
I recall the many days of feverishly pursuing the loves and life of Lata Mehra down the rabbit hole, the sheer heft of Vikram Seth’s tale and how it embroiled us all in its ever widening and multi-colored landscape of a changing India. In a way it was all our stories retold and leaving all else aside, we poured hungrily over its countless pages – not wanting them to come to an end – yet anxious to see how it turned out for Lata.
