Start the week with a film: 'Groundhog Day' is about a time loop we don't want to escape

In the upcoming , Rajkummar Rao’s hero relives his the day before his wedding over and over again. The Hindi-language time loop comedy, which will be out on May 7, has been described as an Indian Groundhog Day.

Harold Ramis’s 1993 film inventively adapts the Myth of Sisyphus to contemporary times. Co-written by Ramis and Danny Rubin, Groundhog Day is set against the backdrop of an actual event.

Every year in Punxsutawney in the American state of Pennsylvania, a squirrel-like creature known as a groundhog predicts the end of winter and the arrival of spring. If the groundhog sees its shadow, spring will arrive early, according to local lore.

This quaint tradition doesn’t impress television weatherman Phil (Bill Murray). Phil is bored of his job and covering the event – it’s his fourth visit. Phil’s colleagues Rita (Andie MacDowell) and Larry (Chris Elliot) have to endure his sarcasm. Phil himself is up for a cosmic joke of epic proportions.

Time has miraculously stopped in Punxsutawney. The day after the weather prediction is the same as the previous day. Phil runs into the same set of people, including an annoying friend from school (Stephen Tobolowsky). And Phil has to relive his Groundhog Day coverage every day.

Groundhog Day can be rented from Prime Video and...