It was in the summer of 2016 that the Brexit referendum saw a 52 percent vote in favour of Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU). You’d have scarcely been able to gauge this political uncertainty if you went by that year's Bollywood blockbuster shot partially in England, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.

As is usual for Karan Johar's many protagonists, the film's characters remained oblivious to politics, and focused on the matters of the heart. Though, regret was the overarching sentiment in the movie just as it is in the air around the idea of Brexit at the moment.

The world seems to be sharply divided in right, left and centrist ideologies and the divisions came to fore when French President Emmanuel Macron marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I by rebuking nationalism, calling it a “betrayal of patriotism” and warned against “old demons coming back to wreak chaos and death.”

At the heart of this question is Prime Minister Theresa May's draft Brexit deal, that according to many, could be remembered by historians as 'regrexit'.

We begin today's podcast with an earlier Reuters report carried by Money Control that in a way tried to present an overview of the two and a half years since the United Kingdom voted to exit the EU.