2007 · romance · comedy · drama
Cheeni Kum
Directed by R. Balki2h 16m2007
Buddhadev Gupta, a 64-year-old chef, falls in love with a 34-year-old software engineer, Nina. However, their future becomes uncertain when he discovers that her father is six years his junior.
Our read: Cheeni Kum (2007) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded romance · comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- intimate
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