Jamshedpur, Jharkhand is transforming into ‘the’ place for
coming of age movies. Maybe lot of new crop of directors/writers grew up as offsprings
of steel plant or ONGC employees which provided stable white & blue collar work in
Northern India from seventies onward.
Bubblegum is teen coming of age story narrated in first
person by a guy who is probably in his thirties looking back at a Facebook-less
cellphone-less world. A time of sweet innocence, right? Wrong, FB, Twitter and
texting might be new but teenage was a wicked time since time immemorial, even
before language and written word started making matters worse.
A housing society in Jamshedpur is the setting of this
good-natured teen drama which has the fourteen year old Vedant(Delzad Hiravali)
in lead vying for the attention of girl next door, Jenny(Apoorva Arora.) Two
other significant characters are Ratan, Vedant’s arch enemy who has his eyes
set on Jenny as well and Vedant’s deaf and mute brother – Vidur.
The life of teens back in that era has been vividly captured
by the script and characters, so is the life in a housing society (apartment
complex in urban India) of the eighties shown with its small but important
nuances. The events of the story happen around the days leading up to Holi and
the festival forms the thread that holds the story together.
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