Happiness won’t add years to life but it will definitely give life years to live. Happiness doesn’t lie in any destination happiness is the journey happiness lies in efforts. Definition of happiness varies from person to person. Someone may find it in travelling, someone may find it in singing or dancing or someone may find it in wealth. Thus, it would be wrong to setup any stereotyped definition of happiness. Happiness has intrinsic and extrinsic parts lies within it.

     Extrinsic components include physical aspects like wealth, status in the society, reputation etc. while intrinsic components include human virtues like honesty, sense of recognition, sense of belongingness, probity and many more.

     The journey of self-satisfaction starts with the surroundings of an individual. And the first mode of attaining it is through the family system. By just seeing the smile on the faces of family members can bring happiness to an individual. We have often seen that after tiring labor work for the entire day father remains quite peaceful and happy by just seeing his kid smiling at him. 

     This story also tries to highlight the life of a middle-class father who just wanted to see smile on his daughter’s face. It shows the struggle of a father to bring happiness to his child when many of the things are beyond his reach. The story not only portrays the story of a single father but it resembles to millions who strive for the same. At the same time story throws light on conditions of general bogeys of Indian railways and pitiable conditions of travellers travelling through it.

     It is true that Indian railways are the lifeline of the countries and it has helped since 

pre-independence times, in achieving national unity. But with the advent of globalisation and population explosion pressure on railways has risen manifolds and it has failed significantly in fulfilling basic needs of any transportation is supposed to provide. The major sufferers of this are economically weaker sections of the society. 

    Railway development has been skewed toward the economically well worth section of the society. Consequently, railway travel for commoners is very hectic and even getting a window seat in general bo- gey itself is a daunting task for them, forget about other basic facilities.

    India’s poorest people travel in Unreserved General Class (UR), as well as those who haven’t been fortunate enough to secure a ticket in Sleeper Class. Reservations aren’t required and the concept of overcrowding really is taken to a new level. There’s sitting or standing room only, and any spare floor space is occupied by those willing to sleep on

it. Most seats are simply wooden benches, although some trains do have padded benches.

1.  Character Design

The film had two characters –Father and the daughter. Inspirations for the father’s character came from my personal life. And I developed the daughter’s character using photographic references from internet.

a. Father:

The father had maximum screen time. I tried keeping his character extremely simple to draw. He does a lot of hard work for his family and has experienced a lot of tough situations. So I made his face pointier to show hardships of his life he has experienced.

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