Screen Share | Films that talk about homecoming

A still from ‘Kapoor & Sons’

This year, some work commitments ruined my plans to go home for Durga Puja. As I was driving and shouting towards the new Bengali restaurant in Mumbai, my thoughts drifted away. the bearWhich swept the comedy Emmys. In the globally acclaimed series, Carmi, a top-rated New York chef, returns to his hometown of Chicago after his brother commits suicide. Over three anxiety-inducing seasons, we watch Carmi as she strains every nerve (hers and everyone else’s) to turn their chaotic, family-owned sandwich shop into an upscale restaurant.

Carmi is advised by her uncle to keep an eye on the ball to “be the guy,” yet the house — with its unruly sauce and kitchen misery stains — creeps in. Coming home is a messy, delicate affair More than a decade ago, we met a different Karmi of lesser caliber.

2012 Hindi Comedy Love Shubo Te Chicken Khurana It is bittersweet for family, food and identity. After stealing away from his own grandfather and moving to the UK, Omi (Kunal Kapoor), many years later, is forced to return. He takes over his family’s dilapidated dhaba, but only a secret recipe, titled ‘Chicken Khurana’, now lost, can restore its luster. Sameer Sharma’s film the bear A low, gentle flame, and the final revelation is both hilarious and unexpected.

“Maybe that’s all a family really is,” says its hero Garden State. “A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.” Watching Zach Braff’s 2004 comedy for this column, I was less impressed by the poetry of that line than by Braff — who was 29 when he starred in his own directorial debut — as Siddharth Malhotra. One of Malhotra’s strongest performances can be found Kapoor and Sons (2016), a Bollywood comedy with an American dysfunctional family drama at its heart. There is a wonderful scene – beautifully choreographed by director Shakun Batra – the entire family screaming and blaming as a broken water pipe comes out. It spreads like a house.

Not all homecoming films are comedies. There are countless Thriller – 2020 Australian Movies dry comes to mind — where the central character returns to their childhood town and embeds themselves in a mystery. Then there’s adoption, like movies the lion (2016) andReturn to Seoul (2022), origins and explorations that transcend geographic space. There are also films that hint at the impossibility of return: Sumit and Priyanka, however, are the runaway couple Pokhar ke dunu par(2023), returned to Darbhanga, hard up during the lockdown, they can’t go home.