Dil Bechara from The Fault in Our Stars - Always Forever!

Susant's Swan ship movie, adaptation from John Green's Novel 'The Fault in My Stars' story of young teenage couple suffering cancer. Sushant Singh Rajput and Sanjana Sanghi’s Dil Bechara was released digitally on July 24, 2020. The novel was earlier made into a film in 2014 and starred Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley. The Hollywood version was a complete adaptation of the book while the Bollywood version was adapted with modifications in order to cater to the sensibilities of the Indian audience.

Kizzie meets Manny in her college. You don't decide when to be born, or when to die, but you can decide how to live is what the boy believed. But girl stuck to her grandmothers story, Once upon a time there lived and prince and a princess, both died, and the story is over. The boy thinks that cannot be their story. Hazel meets Augustus during a support group meeting. Manny climbs balconies to break into the room of, Kizie Basu. In TFIOS they just sit by the swing on the garden; there’s no break in. The suburbs of Indianapolis in TFIOS becomes the industrial town of Jamshedpur, the horizon sprinkled with smoke spewing factories. The Honda of TFIOS becomes a TATA Tiago.

Hazel is obsessed with a novel titled An Imperial Infliction. The book ends mid-sentence and Hazel is eager to meet the author to ask about what happens to the characters of the book. Kizzie is obsessed with an album and wants to meet the musician Abhimanyu Veer. One of the songs from his album is incomplete and Kizzie wants to meet him to ask why he left it incomplete. 

Augustus finally tracks down Peter Van Houten's address and tells Hazel that the author is in Amsterdam. Gus uses his death wish to help Hazel meet him and the two take a trip to Amsterdam. In Dil Bechara, Manny successfully tracks down Abhimanyu Veer and discovers that he is in Paris. The duo then takes a trip to Paris to meet him. 

Peter Van Houten was one of the most abrasive characters from The Fault In Our Stars, an alcoholic writer, dishevelled in Amsterdam (where he is from, given the name) who writes a literally-incomplete novel that both Hazel and Augustus fixate on. He is bitter and angry, and towards the end of the film we find out he is still grieving his daughter who died from leukemia at a young age. He is redeemed, sort-of. 

In Dil Bechara he becomes Abhimanyu Veer (Saif Ali Khan), a tee-tolling musician who seems to have written one-incomplete song and disappeared to Paris. When we first see him, he is not in his study buried among papers like Houten, but in a hip cafe with glass walls and domes, in a man bun, receding hair slicked back, sipping cold coffee with ice-cream. He screams sober at the end, “Gaana adhura tha kyunki yeh saali life adhuri hai,” and that’s the last we see of him. 

After the meeting with Peter does not go well, Hazel and Augustus march out of his house. His secretary offers to show them around Amsterdam and takes them to the Anne Frank House. The two share their first kiss on the top floor of the museum. Kizze and Manny storm out of a restaurant after meeting Abhimanyu Veer and later share their first kiss in a hotel room in Paris. 

Manny's friend JP expresses a desire to make a film before he loses his eyesight due to his cancer. Both Manny and Kizze help him complete the film even after JP has his final eye surgery. Augustus' friend in The Fault In Our Stars is shown to be a gamer and has no desire of making a film. 

“Seri”

“Seri? Tamil?”

“Seri ka matlab okay”

“I like seri”

“Yaani aajse, seri hamara word hai” (“Perhaps  ‘okay’ will be our ‘always”)

“Seri Kizie Basu”

“Seri Immanuel Rajkumar Jr.”

And the movie ends with Seri. 

Always Forever!