Listen to Story 'Lootera', released on July 5, 2013, has completed 11 years of being the most deeply romantic film in Bollywood. Director Vikramaditya Motwane treats the story like a delicate piece of artwork, intricately using Sonakshi Sinha and Ranveer Singh's innocence as new actors. It wasn't a commercial hit at the box office, but over the years, it became a film beyond time, telling the story of two suffering souls who were always meant to be together and, at the same time, weren't.
Ranveer plays a conman named Varun Shrivastav who falls in love with Pakhi, an aspiring writer and the only daughter of a Bengali zamindar . The story of the film, though loosely inspired by O' Henry's 100-year-old tale of 'The Last Leaf', finds its silent references from India's beauty in the 1950s. The setting is important because it sets the stage for the most heartbreaking times in the film - the abolition of the Zamindari act in independent India.
The meet-cute moment is such a regular scene and yet, when Varun and Pakhi arrive at the end of their love story, you are taken back to that very moment, around trees when she was driving her car for the first time, and he was a mere cycle rider. The romance in 'Lootera' is simply for the ones who live and appreciate everything 'old school'. There are slow burnings of desires, two beating hearts familiar with the resilience and the flexibility of love, and eyes constantly longing for 'the one'.
Unlike other romantic films, it doesn't aim at ma.