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Life After Death
Reader's Digest India
|April 2021
By sacrificing restraint for sentimentality, Pagglait squanders its promise
FIVE MONTHS into her marriage, Sandhya Giri (Sanya Malhotra) loses her husband, Astik. Instead of breaking down when reading the ‘RIP’ messages that pour in on Facebook, she gently mocks them. Rather than eat bland food, Sandhya wants Pepsi, chips and golgappas. She doesn’t go crazy with grief. She is, instead, thought of as crazy because she does not feel sorrow. The first 20 minutes of
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