India, May 1 -- I was reminded of Kamal Haasan-Sridevi's iconic 1983 film Sadma while watching Junaid Khan-Sai Pallavi's Ek Din. Before anyone comes at me all guns blazing for the comparison, it's purely because of the shared amnesia thread. Does the new film have the same emotional impact?

This one is a Hindi adaptation of the 2016 Thai film One Day. On a completely unrelated note, if there were a drinking game for every time "Ek Din" is uttered on screen here, audiences would be escorted out of the theatre in a collective haze. Anyway, we digress.

The story follows Dinesh (Junaid), an IT professional quietly pining for his colleague Meera (Sai), but unable to say it out loud. During an office trip to Japan, he finds himself wishing fo...