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Can simplicity and innocence of love help us survive the real world?

A question I returned to after watching Laapataa Ladies

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A screenshot from the movie’s trailer.

Once in a while, cinema helps us escape this world and feel alive in the softness and innocence of human condition. Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies (Missing Ladies) does exactly that, making one feel giddy in young love, believe in simple dreams and also anguished by the sudden laapataaness of it.

Phool, a young woman,…

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