When October hit screens last year, the film was widely hailed as one of the most heartfelt stories to have come out of Bollywood, and Varun Dhawan, the most promising actor of the younger crop.

Cut to a year later, and the industry seems to have all but forgotten the gem. The Shoojit Sircar-directed movie was given the royal snub at the string of recently concluded film awards, barely earning a nomination or two across various categories of the different galas.