Yet, by far it is one of the most thrilling films in the last year or so. I don’t remember the last time I was nervous for the hero (that too, one played by Akshay Kumar) even though I knew more or less where the film was headed. To top it off, for a good hour or so. It ain’t new, yet it keeps you glued. That counts for quite a bit.

The film’s content is so unsettling that you wouldn’t want to watch it again, at the same time you feel like you haven’t grasped it all in the first go. It is long and does seem to stall at places, over and above the lingering that is likeable. As well-made as I find a depressing film that shows you reality, I was ready to be out of the theater. After all, it does go out of its way to prove how deeply immoral we are as a society and as humans and after a point I don’t want to be reminded that reality s***s. And at the same time, give me reality over gloss, any day!

To say the film focussed only on one religion would be completely missing the point. It is up to us to extrapolate it to the religion of our choice, including our own. How many of us will “get it” and be able to internalise it is a completely different question altogether.

The incident itself was of course unfortunate, and Bhopal – A Prayer for Rain brings about the events that led up to the eventual disaster in an engaging format.

An engaging film Ungli is. But like observed in another film not too long ago, “Human behavior and life doesn’t change in 3 hours.”

After having seen films week-after-week and knowing there are so many more to be seen out there, very few inspire you to watch it again. And even fewer because each department played its role very close to perfection. Vishal Bharadwaj’s Haider is one of those rare ones. Yes, I will certainly watch this one again. Soon.

…it’s something I would recommend for a light Sunday afternoon. It is guilty pleasure. It is saccharine sweet and fluffy. It is candy floss – it won’t satiate your appetite, but will feel good while you are at it and a little after.

Such a clean-cut, sliced and diced ending is not what a dark humored film like this one deserves. Even so, it is nice to have a change of pace and scenery from the typical Hindi film. Always welcome.

HSKD is cute. It is certainly DDLJ catching up with today’s times. So, it sheds itself of much dramatization and a good part of the run-time. But, it also doesn’t stimulate any emotion, let alone touch you from within.

The real problem then comes with the second half which isn’t explicitly downhill either. It’s just that it becomes a little predictable with characters taking clichéd routes. Four characters, four clichés. And as many predictable turn of events as there are situations. The fun yet satirical moments gradually deteriorate into “oh we left out this obvious point.”

And that drops Filmistaan from a ‘do not miss’ to ‘watch when you can’. And that’s as saddening as the beginning was heartening, because it hurts to not like a film like Filmistaan.