With very little going for it in the music and other technical departments then, Bewakoofiyaan feels like listening to a friend’s woes about their relationship – with empathy and love; but you want them to kiss and patch up, already. So, that you can move on too.

The problem though is that they try to inject it with humor using an exaggerated dose of hyperbole – only to end up flat on its face. Worse yet, you have seen almost all the quippy one-liners in the trailers. Other than a couple of witticisms in the first 15-20 minutes, there is hardly any new material that makes you laugh later in the film.

It is not new, it is not profound, but it held me glued – that freeing your spirit can show you how you are in charge and yet, to free your spirit, you need to take charge.

Gunday is one of those films that make you wonder why it was made at all. The action is plain and pretty much boring. The performances are overtly stylish and overbearing. The dialogue delivery by one and all is too focussed on making an impact without having any support from the dialogue itself.

The writing is so predictable that even if you haven’t seen the trailer you can tell what’s going to happen next.

It is refreshing to watch something different being attempted in as rundown a genre as rom-com. It is refreshing to see the lead female protagonist get something real to do – maybe the technicalities are all over the place but at least she isn’t one of the two extremes tomboy/chirpy-bubbly or demure/shyness incarnate. It is a little disappointing to see her too, make her life about her man. But, then again, maybe that is what love does to you.

It has a chic, Hollywood rom-com feel to it, except that it is Indianized with songs, etc. – See more at: http://wogma.com/movie/one-two-review/#sthash.YZDK7xC9.dpuf

…typical mix of action, silly humor, romance, loud background score, and ill-placed mediocre songs. Though, “baaki sab first class hai” does have decent lyrics. Too little to hang on to for a film that last 2.5 hours.

That’s the root there, the connect – which isn’t there. Certainly a downer, for a film that wants you to experience, rather than just superficially know. Yet, you cannot take away from the fact, that it is brave indeed to make a film like Miss Lovely.

Very rarely, do I say this about a film, but this once I have to – there go two and a half hours of my life.

Slow, long and yet it balances between taking its poetry too seriously and dumbing it down for our benefit. Only a few spots you wish were polished a tad better.