Seeing the unseen

Movie blogger Pankaj Sachdeva critiques films with a twist: he points out inconsistencies even filmmakers have missed!

- Shruti Nair

The first time I watched Dil Chahta Hai, I was 10 years old. I've seen it several times since then, but each time I go back to it, I notice something I hadn't seen earlier.

Meanwhile, Pankaj Sachdeva has written a book on minute details in the movie. When we discuss my favourite scene, where Sid (played by Akshaye Khanna) is sitting with Deepa (portrayed by Samantha Traymande) on the beach, saying: 'Haath mein thaami hui mitti ko jitna pakadne ki koshish karoge, utna hi woh haath se nikal jayegi (However tightly you try to hold the sand in your hands, it will slip away),' he points out that there's much, much more to Deepa's character.

The play of perspective

Pankaj Sachdeva, an analyst at Amazon in the US on weekdays and a movie blogger on the weekends, narrates an interesting nuance in Deepa's character.

"While the three male leads have been reluctant to profess love, or to even accept it themselves, Deepa's portrayal is of a strong, affable person who is not afraid to speak her heart. She has been ridiculed by Aakash for it, but she's actually fearless. Isn't it difficult to maintain the same feeling when you know the person you love totally ignores you?" Pankaj asks.

I think he can read my face the way he reads films (that's what his Instagram account is called: Reading Films) as my jaw drops.