Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017) on Netflix
Bitti Mishra, a tomboyish girl in Bareilly, leaves home after another failed marriage match. A novel she buys on a platform mirrors her life, so she sets out to find its author.
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- Rotten Tomatoes73%
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Plot summary
Bitti Mishra works at the complaint department of the Bareilly electricity board, and her mother wants her married. She wants a husband who accepts her as she is. After another suitor falls through, she leaves home and boards a train. On a platform she buys a novel, Bareilly Ki Barfi, and finds in its heroine a version of herself, so she decides to meet the man the cover names as its author, Pritam Vidrohi. The bookshop owner sends her to Chirag Dubey, who owns the printing press that published the book. Chirag tells her Vidrohi no longer lives in town and offers to pass her letters to him. Bitti writes, and replies come back.
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