Diljit Dosanjh is affable but profoundly bland as Arjun Patiala. Varun Sharma as Arjun’s side-kick Onida and Kriti Sanon as Ritu Randhawa are tolerable.

The film seems like a grim gangland saga that inadvertently becomes funny, and an attempted spoof of a gangland saga that is far from funny.

What strikes you at the end is that, like every good story, this one remains in your mind space “to infinity and beyond,” much after you leave the theatres. In fact you don’t feel like leaving your seat till the screen blanks out.

About the report card on the film, the SOTY second edition, although it does not pass with flying colours, does make the grade.

Despite Sunny Deol’s Presence the Film Fails to Pack in a Punch

A Sharp Comment on Indian Education System…Setters is designed like an Oceans 11 kind of caper where the stakes are not just a heist idea, but the education system of India.

By eschewing the tenets of effective filmmaking, The Tashkent Files fails to get both, the fact and fiction right.

The silver lining is that with a relatively more serious No Fathers in Kashmir as the only other release in theatres combined with the mood of the nation veering towards the patriotic, RAW, despite its flaws, could well have a smooth run.

Inventive, no? Not quite. The path-breaking horror charmer that Peele’s fans expect, Us leads us to believe there is life after death. Only to pull the rug from under our feet by showing that life itself can turn miserable enough to rival death.

Elephants have been such delightful protagonists in previous Hindi films that one would be forgiven for expecting Junglee, headlining action hero Vidyut Jammwal to showcase more pachyderm playfulness. Alas, this one takes the dull and dreary route to belabour the point about the peaceful co-existence of man and beast.