Time loops and characters navigating multiple timelines are motifs seldom explored with nuance in Bollywood. While films like Loop Lapeta (2022) or Baar Baar Dekho (2016) toy with this narrative device, it still remains a rarity. The Stree franchise ventured into an intriguing hybrid of horror and comedy, signalling Maddock’s willingness to experiment with genres and storytelling in ways that could engage audiences beyond formulaic conventions. Similarly, Bhool Chuk Maaf (2025) introduces a science fiction premise intertwined with a romantic comedy— its narrative focal point being a time loop that returns Ranjan (Rajkummar Rao) repeatedly to the 29th, before the day of his wedding. Yet this very mechanism and its execution is what paradoxically becomes its Achilles’ heel.