If you’ve seen the original or intend to at some point, give Begum Jaan a miss. Although, a first-rate Vidya Balan act is reason you shouldn’t.

Passing this one off even as a one-time watch would be being very, very liberal.

When a film is outright abominable, the reviewer wants to draw out his daggers. He spends time on finding innovative ways to poke at the disgrace. Both cases make for interesting writing experiences.

Whether Smith has a thing for emotionally manipulative stories, or this is his version of playing to the awards gallery, he should realize this is not working. It looks like he didn’t learn the right lessons from his Seven Pounds. Hope he does from this one.

Technically the film is below average. The direction is below par, and the film struggles to make a point clearly. Freaky Ali is essentially a badly-written film – golf isn’t cricket or boxing to begin with, and despite the director having three hours, he cannot get you connected with the sport.

The movie is well-edited as well (Ninad Khanolkar), and that partially lifts it out of its drab writing. Nevertheless, HBJ is still a small-town saga lacking in novelty, romance and adventure, and less than a riveting watch. You can safely skip this one.

Mohenjo Daro is too boring to be a “time-pass” film, and takes facts too trivially to be a “serious” history film. Watch it for the cast and the art direction, maybe the VFX. Better still, don’t watch it at all.

Your kids may appreciate this one and that’s largely because they’re a forgiving lot. You might like it if you haven’t watched The Jungle Book. All things considered, you’re not necessarily going to regret avoiding this not-so-legendary Legend.

So, yes, you don’t find it easy to call 1920 London outrightly horrible. Now, is it great cinema? Hah, that’s a laugh – of course it isn’t. It barely manages to be tolerable. However, if you go with your usual low expectations for a Bollywood horror film, you might find this just about passable.

There’s utter disregard for cohesive and transitional logic throughout, and you start to feel like you’re in the middle of a nightmare brought on by a bad case of indigestion – you’re in pain, it’s all very confusing, but you can’t wake up.