Dobaaraa is a thriller about time travel in which the protagonist Antara (Taapsee Pannu) alters the timeline to create a new future. When Antara is able to go back in time, she prevents the death of a child named Anay. You would think this is a good thing and in some ways, the changed future in which Antara finds herself does seem rosier. Much of what she disliked about her life in the other timeline has either been erased or transformed. However, there are costs to this ostensibly improved version. Antara is now a doctor in the altered timeline (she was a nurse in the unaltered past), but as is invariably the case in fiction, a woman’s professional success has to come at the cost of a personal life. And so, unlike the other Antara who was a mother, the altered Antara has no family. As Dobaaraa plods on, it turns out that there’s a lot of truth to ye olde saying, “no good deed goes unpunished”. The consequences of Antara’s original action include her longing for her missing child and plunging one of the characters in the film into a traumatic existence (so much so that death seems to be a better option).