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Kakkar constructs a case for cross-border friendship without tripping over in an emotional slush

My favourite sequence shows the captured Indian protagonist sitting in solitude in a darkened room when the sound of Reshma's song Ve main chori chori wafts in. Sunny joins in with Lata Mangeshkar's Yaara sili sili which is the Indian avatar of the same tune.

An entire thesis can be written in the way the film utilises Bollywood songs as the sounds of two cultures peering anxiously but affectionately at one another.

The storytelling never pounds out a pro-Pakistani message merely to try to tilt the socio-political ba lance between the two countries.

Filmistaan is neither for or against either country. It's blissfully proBollywood So what happens when a struggling assistant director from I ndia bonds with a CD pirate of Boll ywood films in Pakistan? We find out with the same thrill of discovery that the d i rector feels as he lets the two protagonists sort out their differences.

This quirky charmer from firsttime director Kakkar is fresh in vision and enchanting in execution. The only happy outcome of the cross-border divide is a heartwarming film such as this. As we often say about the Wag ah border, this you gotta see.

SUBHASH K. JHA