Delhi, at the age of 22). Despite some obvious flaws, ‘
Smile, Please’ had the honor of squeezing the saline out of my eyes, which are usually unfazed by Bollywood’s tear-jerking tricks and sentimental shenanigans.
Smile Please tackles the heavy, hard subject of dementia (in this case, the rare early onset kind); however, like any
Bollywood movie worth its salt, it multitasks heavily on the emotional front. We get a variety of engaging sub-plots stirred into the mix including family dynamics, the tradeoff between a career and family for ambitious Indian women, and the evolving relationship between divorced parents as they share parenting.