With Manmarziyaan, it is this kind of love story that Kashyap, I think, is out to challenge.

His lovers are too messy for an external force to cause any real harm.

They have no enemies to shoot, and so they take aim at each other.

For a film that waxes eloquent about the unpredictability and volatility of love, the end feels like an unnecessary cop-out.

This now yes-now no, now no-now yes romance tests patience beyond a point…