HEARTS LED TO LOVE AND MADE TO FALL IN
Physicist Albert Einstein was tongue in cheek when he declared, “ gravitation cannot be held responsible for falling in love ”. Indeed! But, “attraction” surely can be. Well, " ಕಥೆಯೊಂದು ಶುರುವಾಗಿದೆ " ('Katheyondu Shuruvagide', meaning: 'A Story Has Started') is a 2018 critically-acclaimed Kannada film– a romantic comedy, to boot– that features a plot of two broken-hearted people falling in love. Tarun (Diganth Manchale) is a boutique resort owner, who returned from the US to escape the mundane, robotic existence there. The inner calling, and the resultant leap of faith, led to the investment in the hospitality venture But, his entrepreneurial journey is sputtering and stuttering along; keeping the resort afloat is a struggle. Online reviews of the resort have been negative; his driver is madly in love with the receptionist, who is on the verge of quitting. He has demons– of past failures and present challenges– to exorcise too. In short, Tarun's cup o...