Like DDLJ, the hand stretched out from the train sequence comes once in the beginning, and once in the end. Kartik (Ayushmann Khurana) is going to Aman’s (Jitendra Kumar) family home, in Allahabad, where he will have to win over his father (Gajraj Rao). Debutante Hitesh Kewalya’s queer romantic comedy uses familiarity to take the Hindi film audience to unfamiliar, and sometimes uncomfortable, places. Big revelations are made in the train and railway station, and contrary to expectations early into the film. The climactic voiceover asks the audience to reimagine legendary love stories: Laila and Juliet, Majnu and Romeo, Simran and Anjali, Viru and Jai, playing to the visuals of, what else, but Kartik and Aman running to get on the train.
