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Apart from the homecoming, it is the reunion of friends that the tale focusses on. The bulk of the narrative, however, is about the mundane life of each character described in microscopic detail during the funfilled holiday activities, which include indulging in seance, playing kabaddi and spending time together frolicking around.

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Kalki Koechlin is natural and brilliant as the attention seeking, sex-starved Mimi.

With Om Puri speaking in chaste Hindi, and Tanuja often breaking into Bengali, the duo as Mr and Mrs Bakshi, with no chemistry between them, strike out as an odd couple, who take each other for granted.

The film is set in the late 1970s, in the small hilly town of McCluskieganj in the erstwhile state of Bihar. The narrative begins with a corpse being transported from the hospital. It keeps you glued to the screen till the very end as to who is dead.

A few days before the end of the year 1978, Bonnie visits her parents Mr and Mrs Bakshi along with her husband Nandu, daughter Taniya aka Tani, cousin Shyamal Chatterjee aka Shutu and friends Vikram Choudhary, Brian and

While all the actors are ace performers and they shine in their roles, your heart bleeds for actor Vikrant Massey’s character. He plays the lonely and depressed Shutu who is taken for granted by the motley group, because he is 23 years old, the youngest of the adults and malleable. He is charming and sincere. How he bonds with little Tanya portrayed by Arya Sharma or gets hurt when accused by all, are some of the heart-rending moments.

Ranvir Shorey as the recently wedded Vikram Choudhary is the big bully who at his age “still behaves like he is a 23-year-old”, is aggressive and a chauvinist. Ranvir displays the repulsive side of the character with natural ease.

Tillotama Shome displays a variety of shades to her character Bonnie. She is aptly supported by the understated Gulshan Devaiah as her husband Nandu who acts like a dominant older brother to Vikrant while teaching him how to