 "Varun Dhawan and Banita Sandhu")
In a crucial scene in the recently released October, Varun Dhawan’s character Dan moves away from gazing at his comatose colleague, Shiuli (Banita Sandhu), after a hospital attendant shoos him away. Dan has been watching over Shiuli since a New Year’s Eve accident that left her paralysed.
This submission to authority is uncharacteristic of Dan, who — until the accident that put Shiuli in that position — is portrayed as gruff and no-nonsense. Now, however, eager to let nothing sever his fragile connection to Shiuli, he does not protest the rudeness and slinks quietly away. The film, which charts Dan’s
