Both Saswata and Swastika are a delight to watch. Or the mother-daughter squabbles, which end in a hug and a smile. Some of the scenes remind you of Basu Chatterjee films of yore - like Manny and Kizie’s father (played by Saswata Chatterjee) bonding over the bad culinary skills of her mom (Swastika Mukherjee). They do get to meet the musician in Paris - a delightful cameo by Saif Ali Khan - but Kizie is disillusioned when she actually meets her hero. The song is kind of unfinished and she keeps imagining why it is so. To be fair to her she is also a romantic at heart and is obsessed with the song Main tumhara composed by an independent musician. She is more in tune in what's wrong with her and has kind of accepted her destiny. The cylinder kind of becomes a mute character in the film and is called Pushpendra. Kizie is also suffering from cancer and has to carry an oxygen cylinder around with her everywhere. Which offers moments of hilarity in what’s otherwise a tearjerker. This strand has given director Mukesh Chhabra a leeway to play with the film-within-a-film motif. His dream is to make a full-on masala film like Rajini films and he and his almost blind friend (Sahil Vaid) make use of their phones and Handycams to realise that dream. He is quite filmi in nature and is a huge fan of Rajinikanth. Nothing much is indicated about his background he seems to be an ex-student of the college in which Kizie (Sanjana Sanghi) is studying in. He makes friends easily and basically is a romantic at heart. Like Anand, Manny is also suffering from cancer but he has a jovial, positive outlook towards life. Sushant’s character Manny is drawn on similar to Rajesh Khanna’s character Anand.

The initial inspiration of director Mukesh Chhabra may have been the book and the Hollywood film but Dil Bechara carries shades of Rajesh Khanna starrer Anand (1971) as well. Hence the film's release on OTT has been made all the more poignant. The film was supposed to be released in May but due to coronavirus pandemic its release got postponed and sadly in between Sushant died by suicide. It features Sushant Singh Rajput in his last starring role. It's based on John Green's novel of the same name.

Dil Bechara is an official remake of the Hollywood hit The Fault In Our Stars (2014) starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort.

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