After long time I had a privilege to watch a meaningful 2017 movie written & directed by Milind Dhaimade ‘Tu Hai Mera Sunday’. Movie portrays the problems in a very delightful texture. It is about a group of friends – men with jobs who meet every week to blow off some steam.

These football enthusiasts discover one fine day that they are no more allowed to practice their sport. That doesn’t disheartens their spirit though. The movie starts about the shortage of space in the city of dreams Mumbai for its people to notice their differences.

Here enough humans are put into this horizontally challenged routine every day and people getting claustrophobic with their small living spaces, chained schools, cramped streets, overpopulated offices, absence of open spaces so that one can breath his freedom.

A desperate battle for survival becomes a “comfort zone” of sorts and everyone is on an overflowing station platform. The movie has cast of Barun Sobti, Vishal Malhotra, Shahana Goswami, Rasika Dugal, Avinash Tiwary, Jay Upadhyay, Nakul Bhalla, Maanvi Gagroo, Pallavi Batra, Shiv Subrahmanyam & Rama Joshi.

The movie personifies the ease of relations, of friendships, of life. The movie focuses on the lives of five friends. Personally I’d love to be friends with each of them because I know they will enrich my life.

Like every where the movie has spaghetti of complex relations and their troubles and how their lives intersect each other. On the way, there are interfering people and their issues where everyone has to learn to resolve these and deal with them.

Everyone seemed to be okay with their state of affairs. Despite their deep friendships, every character is fighting for their battles all alone. And there is always a moment of outburst that is waiting to happen, gives courage to every character to take one small step forward.

There are few heartwarming moments of an immensely talented man’s internal conflict and simple ambition of wanting to be happy. A middle-aged man who doesn’t want to stay at home on Sunday at all and wants to run away desperately from his annoying family.

The siblings who can never seem to get along. A daughter trying to get hold of her father, her anxiety when he goes missing. The employees who screwed by their filthy boss to whom finally they were able to teach a lesson. A man’s passion and his budding love for his neighbour and her two children who were mute by birth.

And therein lies the beauty of the directorial attempt where we realize that all it takes is one little step of courage. And everyday is like Sunday happy, fulfilling, free. It essentially is the holiday we all need for sure!