4 min readJul 24, 2026 01:56 PM IST Musafir Cafe review: A three-way modern romance set in a small town. That’s the pitchline of Musafir Cafe, based on a novel of the same name by Divya Prakash Dubey, created by Sharanya Rajgopal and directed by Ruchir Arun, and the eight-part show takes the memo very seriously indeed. Chander and Sudha — someone here is evidently a fan of Dharamveer Bharati’s classic novel of the same name — meet and ignite in Bhopal. Having quit his software job in the US, he works in a dull government office, nursing a dream of opening his own cafe in the hills, while meeting suitable girls with a view to marriage. She is your ambitious girl who never hides anything she’s thinking, outspoken in the way Bollywood chulbulis are: Sudha, like that other girl in the train, is her own favourite, and doesn’t care who knows it. There’s passion. There’s a bit of sexn — yes, really — too. Small town people aren’t squeamish like that, okay? All is …