The year was 2013. I was just about to start college when, sometime in early June, I went to watch a movie with my friends, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. The movie sparked a debate after it ended, and a few …
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I am still surprised at the title I have just now typed above. This movie was not on my radar. I had seen the trailer once as a part of the previews for some other movie but that was it. I had neither any intention nor motivation to go watch this movie. I had written Karan Johar off as an out-of-touch Boomer who didn’t understand how love and relationships have evolved since the 90s ever since his “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”. And boy was I surprised!
Netflix seems to be making movies with a “social message” in hopes that even if the movies are terrible, they will not be criticized and simply be forgotten. Any criticism directed at the movie can be thrown back into the face of the critic, accusing her of ignoring the plight that the movies strives to bring attention to.