Queen starts off with a scene that is rarely seen in Hindi cinemas these days. Rani (Queen), the protagonist, is dumped by her fiancé a mere two days before the wedding, that too at a coffee shop which advertises, “A lot can happen over coffee .” A lot does happen indeed, but not the way we expect – a tight slap on the guy’s smug face or with the girl walking off in a huff with the guilty guy walking behind her. Firstly, the guy is not smug; he is matter-of-fact and serious. Secondly, the girl is not the kind to slap people and make a scene. If anything, she is polite to a fault. Initially, Rani dismisses his words with an indulgent and shy smile; she thinks he is teasing her. But when she realizes that he is serious, we see how the news affects her. The camera lingers on Rani, on her pain and indecision, on her helplessness and probably having the black mark of a cancelled wedding. It’s all there on her face. There is no quick cut to the future, no background score to
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