A rom-com that learns to let go

Sharanya Rajgopal's ‘Musafir Cafe’ outgrows its rom-com clichés to become a thoughtful meditation on love, ambition and the grace of moving on.

Eventually, Sharanya Rajgopal’s ‘Musafir Cafe’ settles into the cosiness of a novel found in a railway station bookstall. Those unintimidating 200-page paperbacks, which one buys for an overnight journey. Here, it happens in the seventh episode of this eight-episode series. Sudha (Vedika Pinto) is a pretty, impulsive, recklessly-ambitious girl from Bhopal – a version of a metropolitan idea of a small-town firebrand. The kind who discovered ‘Carpe Diem’ in her adolescence and never looked back. She has a job offer from Mumbai, which she reluctantly accepts.