I had approached this one with trepidation. Nagesh Kukunoor is a talented director in his own right, but I found the previews and trailors unappealing. And while I have enjoyed watching some of his films in the past, I've never revisited them, at least in part because Kukunoor is a director who lacks the visual sense of cinema, concentrating more on dialogues for character development.

But Dor is actually a film that takes a journey into the side of India that is rarely shown in most of today's Hindi cinema. Along with the journey from Himachal to Rajasthan is the journey of a friendship bond between two girls, Zeenat (Gul Panag) and Meera (Ayesha Takia). The story has many layers to it: it is a love story, it is a story about widow rights and it is a story about being able to come to terms with bereavement.