MX Player’s ‘Indori Ishq’ Puts A Whole New Spin On Unrequited Love

MX Player's 'Indori Ishq' Puts A Whole New Spin On Unrequited Love
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MX Player’s most recent contribution Indori Ishq is currently gushing on the stage. The 9-scene show featuring mainstream youthful entertainer and OTT standard Ritvik Sahore, alongside Vedika Bhandari ahead of the pack discusses youthful love in the entirety of its wonder – from the underlying mush to the later pain. However, dissimilar to most other ordinary plots about experimentation connections or lonely love, Indori Ishq takes a darkish turn someplace in the centre when Kunal understands that Tara is swindling him and his fantasy sentiment turns into a far off dream.

Here, look at the trailer.

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6DGsJ5LQDk

The first thought that comes to mind after watching the trailer, is – what’s with India’s obsession with unrequited love? Well, pardon the cliche here, but life really isn’t fair. Most of us have been through a phase in life where we’ve longed to be with someone while the other person didn’t feel the same way. The reason stories – in both film and literature – often cover this form of one-sided attraction is because they’re oh-so-relatable to so many.

Even the Indian movie industry didn’t shy away from it. 1983’s Sadma (a remake of Tamil movie Moondram Pirai) perfectly captured the pain of unrequited love in its memorable climactic scene. 1994’s Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa had Shah Rukh Khan playing a conniving lower of sorts, who’s okay with manipulating his crush into falling for him. The words to the song Ae Kaash Ke Hum Hosh Mein Ab from the same film echo the sentiments of all who’ve spent countless hours cooking up imaginary futures with their crush. Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam is a great film, and perhaps Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s best work to date, and yet, the most memorable thing about it is perhaps the go-to anthem of all lovelorn Indians – Tadap Tadap Ke Iss Dil Se. Point is, we Indians are obsessed with films about unrequited love because we see so much of ourselves in them.

This is where Indori Ishq gets interesting. The trailer shows that the series mainly deals with a small-town boy whose longtime crush and now-girlfriend cheats on him, which makes him spiral into an abyss of self-loathing and obsession. But it also exposes the difference in standards for men and women when it comes to being cheated on. If the genders were flipped, the narrative would most likely be about how the guy ‘ruined’ the girl’s life, because that is how society mostly reacts to such incidents. But since the ‘victim’ is a guy, he’s the loser here. The series seems to be shattering such gender stereotypes surrounding love, commitment and relationships through this modern-day story.

This riveting series also stars Aashay Kulkarni, Meera Joshi, Tithi Raaj, Donna Munshi and Dheer Hira in key roles.

 

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