This movie I watched in an airplane during one of my journeys. Shefali Shah has been my favourite for a pretty long time. I am not sure what I like more about her, her perfect expressions, her seamless acting or the way she merges with her character. Well!!!! Everything isn’t it?
So, this movie while I watched sitting in the middle seat, stirred something which was dormant for a longest time ever. I had to control my tears but honestly, could I?
A beautiful movie and all the actors are legends in their own way. Other than Shefali Shah, her husband is played by Swanand Kirkire and her Friend is played by Jaideep Ahlawat. All in all a wonderful cast, who brought this simple story alive.
A woman always longs to go back to her own place which is generally her parents house or her grandparents’ house. For her that’s her roots her calm her recharge. She can be herself there, no judgements, nothing to prove.
But YET there is a place she longs to go back and that can be not necessarily her parents or grandparents’ place. And that’s what hit me very hard. I don’t have “Bachpan ka Ghar” to go back to. To relive my younger days or boxes to rummage through or a nostalgic feeling to go to. I am reinventing myself everyday but “laut kar jaane ke liye kahi nahi”. A place where I can just breathe just be myself, where I have known people while growing up and maybe meet them or just bump into them and feel alive. You know when you find an old book that you loved and you smell it or Nani’s saree how it smelled when you were lying down on her lap and her hands caressing your hair can you connect to that feeling? She cooking something that you loved when you were a young girl and that jani pehchani aroma that you have been dreaming for so so long.
These are imaginations for me. Because I have been uprooted too many times and there is nowhere, I can call mine. I really feel “koi to jagah ho na jisko apni bula saku”. That I could show my child that’s my house that’s where I grew up or maybe my childhood pictures or places I visited, just something. A place where my sentences are not stuck before even they were completed and where I was genuinely asked “kaisi hai”
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