"All is well."
Essentially a buddy road movie, literally and down memory lane.
Recalls college life in a school that is obviously IIT.
It asks: What is the true measure of success?
Finding one's integrity to one's self.
Must have resonated with a generation's feelings of parental and academic pressures.
Hence its box office success.
LOL moment for me: Visiting Raju's family with its '50s Hindi filmy palette.
There are a handful of characters with suicidal ideation.
Heavy for Bollywood?
Hardly weighs it down. Uses them to turn on my waterworks …
Optimism prevails with its mantra “All is well” to quell any fears.
Per my teacher, Oscar Hammerstein II,
“Whenever I feel afraid, I whistle a happy tune ...”
Zoobi Doobi -
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