Sonakshi Sinha delivers a sincere performance in a movie that gets lost between convenient laughs and righteous messaging

Eventually, the film turns out to be Ranaut’s assertion that she is much misunderstood, but will live the way she wants to

Arjun Patiala feels like a Punjabi film masquerading as a Bollywood one. The humour is deliberately rough and rustic and the filmmaking clunky. The hero has a glad eye, uses some utterly banal and incorrect lines about maa behen ki izzat but gets away from it all by giving a self-righteous lecture on consent.

Strong performances can’t save this forgettable affair

The new adaptation is a loyal tribute to the 1994 original, though a few outdated tropes could well have been reinterpreted

A salutary cause and an inspirational story about the triumph of the underdog doesn’t necessarily make an engaging film

The entire film, just like the original, is dependent on and propelled by the performance of the star at the centre. And however good Shahid Kapoor might be in living the trauma and angst of the character, you still can’t get away from the sickening male entitlement.

Woody, Buzz and the rest of the crew go on an epic road trip in what could well be their last adventure together

Khan might get to show off his emotional chops with the ever-reliable Tabu for company but it’s Kaif who pleases and almost walks away with the film with her natural, unaffected and winsome ways. Also, for a change, it’s refreshing to find a film in these times, that doesn’t portray former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a bad light. Some points scored there.

The tone gets too sanctimonious and earnest and often screechy, the acting veers towards the melodramatic but film’s plea to save manushyata (humaneness and humanity) is well-intentioned and hits the right spot. The timing of its release makes one wonder if it’s an unintended metaphor of our times. Or if it’s a film that is marooned and stranded because the cause it’s propagating is itself a lost one. At least for now.