LIFE: A JOURNEY WITH A SERIES OF HALTS
To paraphrase John Lennon, “ life happens while you are busy making plans” . That seems to be the underlying message of “ ಮುಂದಿನ ನಿಲ್ದಾಣ ” (' Mundina Nildana ', meaning: “Next Station” ), a 2019 Kannada romantic drama that critics waxed eloquent about! The protagonists, Partha (Praveen Tej), Meera (Radhika Chetan) and Ahana (Ananya Kashyap) have diverse interests, distinct personalities, different aspirations and disparate professions too. Partha gets into a relationship with self-assured Meera, who is on the lookout for a soul-mate. She wants to settle down in blissful matrimony. Partha though is uninterested in marital commitment. Ahana is a free-spirited and fun-loving medical student; Partha finds her attractive too Each of the three main characters is on a journey to explore, discover and enjoy life. Their paths converge in bizarre ways... and, then diverge too in equally strange ways. But, at the intersection, each one influences the life of the other in some amorpho...