Arindam Mukherjee

It was a bright Sunday afternoon; Barcelona were playing against Levante. During the fifth minute of the match, a strange thing happened. A nineteen-year-old left-back received the ball and passed it to Pau Cubarsi. Then, instead of occupying the wide lane, he shifted into the half-space and made an in-behind run through on goal. In the meantime, via Cubarsí and Rodri, the ball came to Raphinha. He played one-touch with Fermín and gave a small pass to the fellow left-back.

In his stand-up special Besharam, Abhishek Upmanyu brought up a topic that is still one of the biggest unsolved issues in Indian households. The father-son relationship. He emphasized how Indian fathers always try to communicate through their wives, which dilutes the depth of the relationship they share with their children, especially sons. There is always a sense of fear, anxiety, and unaddressed vulnerability, which eventually broadens the distance between them.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. – Bob Marley Ambrish Verma’s “Sapne vs Everyone” is a direct reflection of this philosophy. It awakens the dreamer in you, provides you with the courage to stand against society, but at the same time shows you the dark side of reality. It whispers to you to dream, but also tells you not to put a condition on it to be true. The stories of the two protagonists unfold in parallel.