Simran | Theatres List

If we were to believe the movies, people in misery always look, feel and act miserable. There is not a moment of mirth in those lives as they are depicted. But reality is often far more complex. Poor people and troubled people, too, have fun. Unlike in the movies, they laugh and live like nothing is the matter for at least some part of the time, if only to forget their misery. It is this normalcy of misery that is really difficult to portray in a medium that takes roughly two hours to tell a story.

Simran appears to be an intentional exercise in this depiction of cheer and calm ....