Chalte chalte: moving, along the way. Movement is how lives are lived and how films do their work — carrying us, altering pace, revealing who we are in motion. The phrase becomes Arjun’s private incantation. He uses it first to steady himself when the city compresses into panic, later to persuade Meera to walk with him beneath a rain-scoured streetlamp. It is simple, rhythmical, almost a refrain: chalte chalte.