Some thoughts on DDD.
DDD is a ZNMD wannabe.
But since its from the same Director, lets just say, she tried but it could not be.

DDD is also glossy, it’s shot in foreign locales, its about upper middle class urban folks, its got pretty faces and prettier landscapes in every other frame.
Unlike ZNMD, this time however, its all body and very little soul.
And that’s a pity.

Since the film is about our inner spirit. And follows the protagonist’s journeys until they are able to achieve a “ soulgasm”
DDD, like ZNMD, is ultimately about ultimately breaking free.
Don’t we all, in varying degrees, often and tragically, feel trapped?
A wife by husband, a man by his profession, a son by his duties, a woman by the societal mores, a husband by wife, a fiance by his fiancée, and a poet by his past.

All trapped, except, perhaps the leashed dog?
All victims of some life context, of some conspiracy of circumstance.
And sometimes it takes a road trip and other times one on sea, to break free.

Diving deep (into the sea) or just jumping into it from atop a ship takes our protagonists to places they hadn’t been before.
Resulting in magical things to happen.
It also takes a woman? To help you cross the chasm, to jump, to flirt, to fly, to sing , to dance.

Once the caged spirit is out of the bottle, it sets sail and no winds however strong are able to get it back.
The bulls chasing us haunt us no more.
And we realise we have only one life to live. No doobara.
And ask others to allow our hearts to beat to our music. Do ge?
In DDD. the resolution is “melomelodramatiic”, the music not melodious, the movie too long, the cliches have been heard before.
Ranvir Singh, however, is very good.
And everything else is rather sterile.
(Perhaps a comment on the relationships of the rich and the wretched?)

I am sure Zoya Akhtar is feeling trapped after the success and brilliance of ZNMD.
And so this mediocre film.
Run Zoya run.
We will wait for another ZNMD.
Hope you break free.

( dedicated to my friend who is as free spirited as they come…and egged me to express my views).