…creates a couple that ignites the screen, and most of the time when these two are on screen, you keep watching. It’s when the guns come on, and the gun-masters start roaring and shouting, that the love-story drowns, and everything gets both too noisy and too choreographed. I enjoyed the lovers, and their ram-leela: if only the film had been more ras, not goli-leela, more roses than guns.

… the shape-shifting Loki is the only character who makes himself new and interesting. When he is around, ‘Thor: The Dark World’ becomes a different film altogether. You wish there was more of him.

The rest of it is metal clanking.

‘Satya’ was a gamechanger. ‘Satya 2’ is not even in the game. ‘Goli maar bheje mein’.

‘Krrish 3’ is a superhero film. It is also a throwback to the creaky family entertainers Bollywood used to make. The hero has special powers, sure, but also a loving daddy, a lovely wifey, an attractive moll and a villain with severe daddy issues. Only a pet poodle or parrot is missing.

A complete waste of two hours.

It’s all fun up to a point, and despite a couple of amateurish edges, the director shows potential.

If Mehta directs unsparingly, Raj Kumar Yadav acts unflinchingly. His Shahid is a man who grows in front of us, the audience. He does a course correction and changes direction. For a Hindi film protagonist, this kind of arc is rare. So is this story, which calls a spade a shovel, and names names.

The lines overall are cringe-making, and aimed at those who find a truck named ‘Behen Ki Lorry’ funny. Really, Akshay?

…the theme, fronted by the two lead actors, had the potential to be a zinger.

Besharam is not a film. It is Bollywood’s brightest young star stooping to conquer, in search of the mass market. There is no motif in the film other than making Ranbir the new Salman. But why do that when we already have a Salman?