Even Usha’s backstory, told to us in grainy flashbacks, aren’t quite effective. But soon the pace becomes uneven, and in the absence of any significant sub-plot, the latter part of the film never manages to ratchet up enough tension to make it actually thrilling. The characters are intricately developed before psycho stalkers and physical manifestations of existential dread are thrown into the mixture. The first two acts establish the dramatic stakes of the film pretty well: there is an exploration of Pallavi’s torn-between-two-cultures dilemma and her close, complicated relationship with her mother. But is Usha merely succumbing to paranoia, or is there any truth in her beliefs that her daughter is cursed? What Goes Wrong? As her stress for her daughter skyrockets, Usha also starts to experience debilitating migraines and makes excuses to avoid leaving the house. Pallavi is unaware of her mother’s trauma, but Usha’s suspicions are aroused when she spots familiar patterns in Sandeep’s behaviour: she soon starts to belive that Sandeep is a reincarnation of her abusive boyfriend from three decades before.

In the past, Usha had an abusive boyfriend, who nearly killed her before he died himself. The catch here is that Usha, who is deeply superstitious as a person, has always been consumed by the belief that Pallavi is cursed, one that Usha has since then tried to slave off with an eponymous evil eye bracelet and helicopter parenting. Soon romance blooms, but as Pallavi opens up to her mother about her relationship, Usha starts to sense doom. While waiting to meet one of her prospective matches, Pallavi meets Sandeep (Omar Maskati), an unusually perceptive stranger waiting in the same café as her. As yet another Sima Taparia-inspired mother (cinema sure seems to be full of it these days), Usha tries to set her daughter up with different boys in an attempt to get her married soon. Usha lives in New Delhi with her husband while their daughter Pallavi is an aspiring novelist who chose to stay back at the US after her parents moved back to India. The story revolves around the mother-daughter duo Usha (Sarita Choudhury) and Pallavi (Sunita Mani) who, as we are told, are situated in two different continents.

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