New Delhi, July 4 -- Director Madhumita returns to familiar ground with 'Kaalidhar Laapata', a Hindi-language adaptation of her own acclaimed 2019 Tamil film 'K.D.' (Karuppu Durai).

At its heart, the story remains a deeply human one: an elderly man, discarded by his family, finds purpose and joy in an unlikely friendship with a child. But this version, starring Abhishek Bachchan as the titular Kaalidhar, shifts the tone in a way that is both emotionally satisfying and gently bittersweet, if a little too restrained for its own good.

In the original 'K.D.', the protagonist was a crusty, spirited old man who stormed out of his village nursing both bruised pride and a hunger for experience. His counterpart in 'Kaalidhar Laapata', played by ...