A "mature" love story is not something that has worked very well in Indian cinema, for various reasons - the most obvious being that when the audience wants to spend two hours watching two people romance and sing-and-dance, it prefers young, gorgeous, perfect people. This outlook may just change, however, with the release of Bela Sehgal's Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi.
The director took a love story (and named her characters Shirin and Farhad to add authenticity), incorporated all the formulae that Valentine's Days and proposals are made of (read: cheesiness), added a f....