Know that this is the desi forrest gump movie. of course it is more than that, but I think this is a helpful premise for appreciating the good (The wise mother doesn't say that life is a box of chocolates, but instead shares that there are good people and bad people and that's the only difference) and for suffering through the old-school stereotyping (moral redemption comes through interactions with black people--the mammy character/katrina substitutes for bubba blue/vietnam). It has all the beauty of the "wise idiot" story updated for our times, except that it has kajol, which just makes anything better.