Tu Hai Mera Sunday movie review: Once or more, we all have lived this story

Directed By: Milind Dhaimade
Produced By: Varun Shah
Cast: Barun Sobti, Shanana Goswami, Vishal Malhotra
Duration: 2 hours
Bollywood Bubble rating: 3/5

Anand Arjun is an exceptionally good looking man with envious academic performance, sans unrealistic ambitions and lookout for more and more materialistic possession in life. He is sensitive, kind, happy to help and always has a smile on his face. A smile that brightens up your day. One Sunday, his story begins…

To put it across briefly, ad-man Milind Dhaimade’s directorial debut ‘Tu Hai Mera Sunday’ is a pure pursuit of happiness. Otherwise gunned by many of life’s muddles, five friends – Anand (Barun Sobti), Dominic (Vishal Malhotra), Mehernosh (Nakul Bhalla), Jayesh (Jay Upadhyay) and Rashid (Avinash Tiwari) – seek some cheer every Sunday. Anand, who has let go of a fat job and is now happy with his consultancy, is hunted by his elder sister to choose a more stable career path. Dominic, make-does with a worrying aged mother and a brother he doesn’t quite get along well with. Mehernosh is severely unhappy at work and is also struck by Cupid at a colleague. Ouch! Jayesh has a chaotic (understated) home and Rashid, once heartbroken, has turned a Casanova.

Sounds pretty much familiar. That’s what makes the film all the more relatable. One morning, Anand stumbles upon an old, lost man, speaking an alien language which he can’t figure out. After a hilarious soccer outing at Juhu beach that almost leads them to the police station, he manages to get the man (Shivkumar Subramaniam) home. Thus meet Anand and Kavya (Shahana Goswami).

The next two hours are about five people parallelly walking five different journeys. Sometimes funny, sometimes weird, sometimes tragic… just like life!

‘Tu Hai Mera Sunday’ is largely an accumulation of moments we’ve either lived, or seen others living. It is a reassurance that love will spread its wings anytime, an emphasis that friendships are priceless and a communique that it’s not all pleasant, but it’s worth it.

Nothing new is writing stories wherein triumph takes over disaster. But putting them in a strikingly humane manner is what Dhaimade does. The clear-sighted characterisations have been rightly accompanied by strong performance by all his actors, with special mention to Barun. Shahana, as this free-spirited, unfettered woman, is a delight to watch; especially at a time where we are saturated with pseudo-empowered female characters in Bollywood.

Dhaimade, who has as well written the script, visibly believes in sipping out moments from everyday life. The humour that he instills and the visions he tries to emphasise on, are all signs.

As we hunt for slice-of-life films and are often deceived, this one will put a broad smile on your face. Go watch, you will tick a lot of those boxes of emotions.

P.S. Convinced once more, that my man is probably dribbling the football somewhere right now. Gonna find him one fine Sunday!

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