-Hi, Momo. Where are you? -In underwear.
What? I'm reaching the bus stand in 15 minutes, Dhruv.
Fifteen? But… You were supposed to reach at 7:00 a.m.!
The bus covered the distance at night.
Fuck, I'll be there in ten minutes, okay? Don't move, I'm coming there.
Fuck!
No, one second.
-Hello? -Hi! Look here. Come on, look here.
Where? Whose number is this?
Hey, it's the driver's number. My phone died, babe.
Look here. Look to your right. Fuck, Kavu, that's left.
This is right. Right, right!
-Hi! -Hi, Dhruv!
Come, come!
You come here. He waited for me.
He gave me his phone. You come instead, please.
Dhruv, my luggage is here. He'll feel bad.
Okay, fuck it! I'll just come there. Sorry, brother. I will go there.
-Here. -Okay, okay.
After 14 months!
And after planning for Nagpur-Finland a thousand times…
-Here we are! -Here we are.
Hey, did you bring a nail cutter?
What are you staring at? It's no big deal, silly.
They're so embarrassing, man!
Hey, but why? It should be acceptable to walk around with hickeys.
And this is a nice and juicy spot for it. Isn't it?
I missed you, Dhruv. And I got used to not having you around.
I don't like that.
I missed you, too, Kavu.
Thank you for taking this trip.
Thank you for agreeing to move to Bombay with me.
Thank you for always being there, dude.
You're really sweet.
Hey, what's up? Everything okay?
Kavu, he came back.
Who is "he"?
-"He" is that mouse. -Again? How is he surviving that weather?
I have no idea.
Is your roommate back?
No, not as yet.
Did you ask him when he's coming back?
No.
Ask him, Dhruv.
Kavu, he replies in barely two words. Fuck it, he can go to hell.
So text Sanket. Ask him if he is free.
Him and his wife have a very different schedule.
By 8:30 p.m., they have their dinner, watch TV,
brush their teeth and go to sleep.
Sanket's house life is quite goals.
Kavu, his work life is goals.
At the age of 30, he runs the biggest statistics lab in Finland.
It's fucking amazing.
You'll get there, Dhruv. At work and at home.
It's just been a month since you've gone.
It's already been a month?
Wow.
-Hey! -Tell me more about life in Nagpur.
-We just spoke an hour ago, Dhruv. -Yeah, so?
Nothing.
The girls have come over.
Party's on?
Yeah, I mean, Nupur got them over and we're just sitting and talking.
Sitting and talking is a nice thing.
It's okay.
Are you doubting having a good time because I'm here alone?
-Nonsense. -Is it? Am I wrong?
Maybe…
not.
-See? I knew it. -I just didn't want to rub it in.
Yeah, but you didn't rub it in. It's such a sweet thing to do.
You go ahead and enjoy.
Post photos on Instagram, upload stories, do whatever you want.
#BadGirl.
#RegressiveUncle.
-Okay then, bye. -Bye.
Dhruv, why are we not taking a houseboat tour like normal tourists?
I wanted to feel the local life.
To do that, we have to travel with the local folks.
I wanted the exact opposite of that.
When we go to Munnar, we'll travel the way you want. Promise.
Fine.
Alappuzha.
Alappuzha!
You have to roll your tongue.
Alappu… zha!
…ppuzha!
Hey, I did roll the tongue! Alappu… zha!
Forget it.
Actually, there's one advantage of being a Maharashtrian.
You are from neither the North or the South,
but you're able to understand Hindi and pronounce South Indian words. Amazing!
Good. My dad will be very impressed with you.
When there's a discussion about marriage, I will mention it.
It's sort of a light banter. A relaxed atmosphere.
Smart, right? Very smart.
Yeah, I'm sure he'll agree to marry you.
Yes!
That time, when you said no to phone sex because you'd just finished watching porn.
Yeah, I remember that. And you got upset, because I said it's more productive.
Yeah, what the fuck?
-Sir, order? -Hi!
Can we get two Americanos, one grande and one large.
Sir, there's only one size.
It's okay, I don't want it.
-Yeah? All right. -Yeah.
One grande and a little milk on the side.
Sir, you can take a cappuccino.
Cappuccino is a little too milky for me. Just give me a little milk on the side.
Momo, have you noticed how your "yeah" and "all right" have an accent?
That's quite cool.
I had thought I won't change my accent, but it's just a matter of convenience.
Instead of repeating stuff so often, why not just speak in their dialect?
Just makes things… simple?
-You've changed, Dhruv. -Really?
What has changed in particular?
A bunch of things. Obviously, the way you talk has changed.
You're more confident. You look well put together.
You're fit as well.
You think so? Okay, then.
I had told you about this, right? Over there, people don't work like a dog.
They like to have a life beyond work. That's why they're more well-rounded.
I just saw their template and copy-pasted it.
-And still you're so shit at dancing. -I'm not that bad. Nonsense!
You're the same. Exactly the same.
I'm sure some things must've changed. We'll find that out in good time, but…
you're the same person.
Where's our coffee?
Fuck, Kavu, you made fun of my dancing, too.
Hey, I was kidding. What happened?
Dhruv, I stopped drinking coffee six months ago.
Okay.
Why didn't you tell me before?
Because I thought I'd tell you when we meet, but we never met.
Kavu, but you know what happened.
We were about to meet last summer. Everything was planned.
I had to suddenly go to Prague for data sampling.
What could I do? I couldn't say no.
We could have met before that, Dhruv.
You said, "Kavya, don't come now. This is the last month of my grant."
Which got extended to six months, then.
And what about that time when I asked you to come,
but you said that it was the year-end and you couldn't?
That also happened, no?
Fourteen months, Dhruv.
Just because some guy was staring at me while I was jogging,
doesn't mean you get me a yearly subscription to the gym.
That's messed up. Uncle shouldn't have done that.
-He should've spoken to him instead. -He should've asked me once.
I don't even know if I'm gonna be here for a year.
Exactly.
Dhruv, are you scrolling over my face?
At least take your glasses off. I can see everything in the reflection.
It's an email for the Stats Symposium.
They're planning to do it in Kerala next year.
Early bird registration email.
-Maybe we can meet there then, finally. -No, we'll meet before that.
Fuck. Such a pain. What if it comes undone in front of everybody?
My Aryabhata cosplay would be a massive failure.
That's true.
Oh, God, what is this drama? Just to impress the grants commission.
Okay, listen, just keep talking until I reach my room.
-I think my parents are sleeping. -Yeah.
Oh, fuck, I didn't tell you. Dude…
This week, I totally busted my ass
and I had to do everything.
So I made the presentation and I was very happy.
Then, yesterday, when we presented it, dude…
You won't believe. A, they loved it, but…
they were only talking to Sanket!
I was feeling so dejected, man.
That really sucks, Momo.
But a great thing happened yesterday.
I met someone from AMEX.
Turns out, that they're setting up an R&D team with IMRC Bombay.
And they're developing a fraud modelling software,
which is going to be really interesting. It sounds fucking interesting.
That's good.
I'm inside, Mom.
-There was a noise, so I woke up. -It was me. You go and sleep.
Okay. Listen, go to sleep soon, Kavya.
Lights off again?
Yeah, man, she's too sensitive.
She wakes up at the slightest sound.
They were living such a good life, and here I am, disturbing them.
So why don't you go to sleep earlier?
It doesn't work like that, Dhruv.
I'm also set in my own ways.
Yeah, so even they're set in their own way, right?
It's one thing to go home, stay with your parents, holiday and come back.
It's a different thing when you go and live with them.
You're 29 and living with your parents is a task at this time, right?
Yep.
You were the best roommate I had.
Were? What the fuck is "were"?
We'll continue to be roommates in the future.
Not if you're going to scroll over my face.
Definitely not if you're going to keep eating unhealthy things.
I swear, I was just about to make a salad. I swear.
Okay, I should hang up now. Bye, love you.
Bye, love you.
I feel that we don't want to admit that we are growing older.
Exactly how we don't want to admit things were off between us the last few months.
-What do you mean by "off"? -Nothing.
Come on, tell me!
It's just too much pressure, Dhruv.
You started the conversation. At least end it.
Dhruv, I have to pee really bad.
That pressure?
Over there. You think that's fine?
-Should be. -Isn't it?
-You'll guard the place properly, right? -Of course. You go ahead and pee.
Some local guys are here on a boat.
What are they doing?
I don't know. They are sitting. Why do you want to know?
Rude!
Anyway, when I said "off," I meant we were so busy in our lives
that we were only updating each other every day.
We were not really talking to each other, you know?
Yeah.
But…
distance is also a really big factor, Kavu.
Today, when we are face-to-face,
I feel like there's no scope for miscommunication.
Hey, you can't blame everything on the distance.
Ultimately, it's all about the intent, which wasn't there.
Fuck! Those guys are coming here. Don't say anything.
-What? -Fuck!
Hello, brother!
-Hi! -Can I borrow your net?
No English. No Malayalam!
English?
You got hotspot? Need for Fortnite.
No phone, man. No connection! No phone network.
Dead.
What a liar. Pulling some shit about not having net.
Fuck him. You come back.
-What did he want? -You're done?
No. I'm still peeing.
Stupid girl!
Yo, Kulkarni, what's up? I had such a great day today.
I went for a jog early in the morning,
then had a breakfast meeting with the AMEX guys
to finalize the team before I move to Bombay.
After that, I had an hour to kill, so I bought some tofurkey,
which is made of tofu, but tastes like turkey.
I had that with sautéed veggies at home.
It was A1. Absolutely amazing!
Where are you going?
Taking your mother to the hospital. Didn't she tell you?
I was supposed to go too. I came early.
I told her not to bother you. We'll go.
Father, why are you treating me like a guest?
Okay, dear! You can go with her. Kavya!
Kavya, listen!
Kavu, you know what else happened today?
Today, we had a full-power session at the Bollywood dance class.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
One, two, three, four…
This was my sixth class, so Ana said I am no longer a beginner anymore.
I told her
the guy who has watched Boogie Woogie since childhood
was never a beginner to begin with.
That last part was a joke, in case… you know.
-Guys, can you say hi to Kavya? -Hi!
-What? -What "what"?
Why are you staring?
It's just nice to see you do something for the first time.
Yes?
No, you're right, dude.
And, fuck… what I'm about to say
may seem like I'm pressing the panic button,
but that's not the case.
What is the build-up for? Tell me!
Were we less in love?
Was it that, or…
had we forgotten how much we loved each other?
Yeah. It was that.
Actually, I had started thinking that…
When you were in Bangalore, we used to fight so much.
And then, when you in Finland, we barely fought.
All our conversations were like, "Okay, that's fine, cool."
Yeah, we had our own individual lives.
Exactly, but… then I thought this is worse than a fight.
I thought maybe we stopped caring about each other.
No, babe, it's not that.
We obviously care for each other, and we obviously love each other.
Right?
What? We…
Fucker, I almost had a heart attack!
Of course we do.
But…
At least we're talking about it, so…
-It's nice. -Maybe this happens in relationships.
We fight, then figure it out,
then we fight again, and then go around in the same circles.
Yeah, but if this is the case…
how do you move forward?
I guess that depends on who you're going around in circles with.
Subtitle translation by Shruti Shukla