October

There have been many movies that commented on the fickle thing we call love, and many movies that talk about loss. While India does not make a plethora of romance-dramas (we eschew that opportunity for item-numbers and physics-defying acts), we have enough to do us credit. Shoojit Sircar's October brings together the excitement of love, the melancholia of drama, and the desperation of a medical film, making it very different from what you have seen before.

The story follows a young, naive and slightly rebellious hotel management trainee, Dan Walia (Varun Dhawan), who finds out a....