A time that was, in a city that was Bombay. A balmy Christmas Eve. Two lonely strangers. Sriram Raghavan’s Merry Christmas delivers what it promises — an aching mix of nostalgia and romance, intrigue and suspense — in a solid start to the new year.
There are very few filmmakers who can create a slice of the past in such a deeply affectionate, authentic manner, and Raghavan is one of those.Because he is such a film aficionado, we expect and get all kinds of shout-outs, to the 1962 French film ‘Le Monte-charge’ ‘Merry Christmas’ is based on, the pulsating song ‘jab andhera hota hai’ from the 1973 Bollywood potboiler ‘Raja Rani’, the covers of such evergreen LPs as ‘McKenna’s Gold’,
