



‘Ek Din’ review: Sai Pallavi the one spark in earnest, stilted romance
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.“Do you think you’re Superman?” Meera (Sai Pallavi) scolds her colleague Dino (Junaid Khan) after he nearly gets run over saving a child who wanders into traffic. He protests, and he’s right to. Dino is uncoordinated, underconfident, uncertain.
His dorky square glasses are there so he can see properly, and even these are held together with tape and a safety pin. Forget Superman, he a barely functional Clark Kent.If there’s anyone with a superhero complex in Ek Din, it’s Gurgaon startup CEO Nakul (Kunal Kapoor), who announces a five-day vacation in Japan for the entire team (in this economy?) so he can stay back with Meera, with whom he’s in a clandestine affair. She knows he’s married, but finds out on the trip that he has no intention of leaving his wife.
Distraught, she drinks herself blind and stumbles into a freezing forest at night. Luckily, this is an Indian film, where you can always count on your benign stalker to step up when needed.Meera wakes up the following day with no memory of the past two years. She's shocked when Dino, who's secretly, madly in love with her, is revealed not only as her saviour but her co-worker.
The doctor assures her memories will return in exactly a day—transient global amnesia, an affliction so hopelessly cinematic it scarcely seems real. Dino is assumed to be her boyfriend; instead of correcting the doc, he doubles down, giving his name as Nakul. The two of them leave the hospital as the strangest, shortest potential situationship.Dino’s deception is only so he can show Meera, a Japan nut with a wish list she’s been compiling for years, the best day possible… even if she won’t remember they were together.
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