Isn’t it beautiful to come across a TV Show or a movie that relates to you so much, from emotions to dialogues that you have multiple deja-vus while watching it, or from specific events to the reactions that you could easily remember getting it the last time you tried to deal with the uncertainty and confusion of maturing adulthood.
The most important thing these shows do is to make you feel that you’re not alone who hasn’t figured out, who is confused and trying to make sense of what’s going on, who is probably late in striking when everyone around is, supposedly, making an “impact”, who is struggling between individualism and collectivism, who is trying to reach a state of “figured out” so as to move to settling down, who is fighting the stability mindset of the earlier generation and trying to fit into the “find your purpose – follow your calling” trend of the coming generation.
I happened to first catch the show – Little Things released first on YouTube channel while sitting in Ola Cab who only offered some 10 shows in its Prime Play Cabs. Less than 20 minute shows with cute couple things have grown into such a serious and meaningful show in its 3rd season released on Netflix that you’d feel like wanting to go meet Dhruv Sehgal for his brilliant story telling and hug him for bringing this to your weekend binge.
The show revolves around the protagonist, Dhruv and Kavya trying to figure their future, worry about parents, face the challenges of long distance relationship especially when both find a purpose beyond the relationship, the past that made them what they are today and realizing their happy place.
All the 8 episodes have some of the most hard hitting scenes, especially the one where Kavya scrolls through her contact list to find a person she can hang out with when her friend cancels on the plan last moment, the one where Dhruv’s mother breaks into tears stating that as parents they were figuring out things too, like everyone around them were and in the process even they made some mistakes which could have been avoided and better things could have been done but that whatever they did, they gave their best, the one where Kavya’s mother makes us realize that “me-time” has no age to the one where Kavya realized that the parents are getting old and the worry that strikes you, to the one where you realize, that it is not necessary that people who are in love will always find happiness in each other but it is important that both of them let each other grow and have the ability to love other people and care about stuff beyond each other too.
This has been one of the most wholesome show I have seen this year. Also one, where I ended each episode either with moist eyes or lump in the throat. Thank you to the entire cast and crew, especially Dhruv Sehgal and Mithila Palkar for this feeling.
One Life, Million Stories. 