This sense of lack, the lingering ‘what if’, colours the narrative as a woman surges out to reconnect with an ex. Is the emotion still bursting? Is she imagining the connection when it has already been nipped?

“Santita” has warmth and heart. It’s buoyed by those even as the actors go all out to give rousing, affectionate, lively performances. There’s a full-bodied energy and zest to the show even while it occasionally spins out of focus.

To make a show like this, you need actors who can infuse life, vitality, and chaos. This is a story zipping with contradictions, humour, and spritzy delight. There are a lot of missteps, grudges, resentments, tempered yet again with a vibrant confection of silliness, especially the joy of a life turning off-course.

However, there’s a strong seam of darkness that registers itself intensely as the film winds up. It’s punishment for a crime Santita hasn’t even committed. She has brought it on herself for helping the one true love of her life.

It turns increasingly sad and despairing, but it’s what Alejandro wanted for a peaceful death. The price has to be paid by her. It’s unfortunate but inevitable.

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When does the appetite for surprise return? What’s the tipping point for someone before they are compelled to take a fresh look at their life? Remarkably and refreshingly, the show doesn’t treat disability as a crutch.

It sees it as inherent and as part of Santita. There’s no evasion or manipulation of the protagonist’s disability. She’s confident and efficient at her job.

Neither are there unnecessary spillages on lamenting the disability. The wheelchair is as natural a component of the story, her life, as the occasionally reckless choices she makes and regrets. Why Did Santita Ditch Alejandro?

It enormously helps that Paulina Dávila and Gael García Bernal have terrific, enthralling chemistry. They elicit the butterflies in the stomach, the headrush of an old love returning to assert itself. Santita left her ex years back.

There have been irreconcilable differences, leading to the split. Why does Santita feel all these complicated emotions now? The actress brings strength and vulnerability, toughness and indecision in a supple mix.

The show isn’t afraid to present her unlikable facets. Paulina owns it gloriously in a meaty role. There’s an inner life given, or at least gestures to it.

It’s a performance lit with emotional intelligence. She thrusts herself into the complexities and dilemmas, paradoxes and contradictions. It’s a difficult role wherein there’s a lot of tussling, hurt being bottled, and lashing out before candour can give way to another chance.

Both Bernal and Dávila spark this flush of love and eagerness with naivete, joy, and utter conviction. It’s a delight to watch them navigate the awkwardness and stumbling frailties of a relationship getting back on its feet. Though it has been years since Santita was with her ex-lover, Alejandro, she hasn’t quite put him behind.

The two were a blast together. Santita has changed a lot, though, over the years. The accident cast everything upside down.

Prior, she was a conscientious, rule-abiding person. She followed everything to the T, living a clean, neat, unquestionable life. It was too polite and civil, and the accident struck.

She became reckless and a party animal. She wants to hurl herself into grand pleasures, abandoning her former self, who was much too obsessed with being a person of integrity and irreproachable manners. How Does Alejandro Re-Enter Santita’s Life?

Her wedding to Alejandro was almost finalised. However, she dumps him at the altar. She thinks she’s rescuing him from a life of being her caretaker.

Santita thinks he’d be too tied to her. She imagines that her act is offering him a release and knows it’s incredibly hurtful. Alejandro goes away and marries a hippie.

But it’s a reckless decision. It doesn’t take long for the relationship to collapse. Little does Santita know that Alejandro would re-enter her life.

She has fantasised about the reunion. Santita feels guilty about admitting that to herself. She has been cruel to him, yet she cannot shake off the intensity of their mutual feelings.

It’s an illusion or marriage of their deferred togetherness that propels the show. Will they be back together or break up again? Who will be the one to pull the plug this time?

Santita’s wedding-day act was harsh. She just slipped him a note and went away. The wedding was widely anticipated. The two were seen as the it couple, frenzied, adored, and idealis