Sanjana: Come on Ram. Friend 1: Are you a kid? What nonsense! He thinks it’s the Kumbh Mela This conversation takes place quite early in the 2004 blockbuster “Main Hoon Na”. Ram Prasad Sharma, a major of the Indian army, is on an undercover mission at a college in Darjeeling, a hill station in north Bengal. He goes to watch a film, “Sholay” (1975), with his new friends and is tasked with buying the tickets. As his friends disperse to get popcorn and other refreshments he asks them to stick together. The throwaway line is one among the many references to popular Hindi cinema of the 1970s to which this film pays self-conscious tribute.