They are the sole bright spots in Rustom, which is too long, wholly disappointing, and feels like an opportunity lost.

Akshay Kumar-starrer borrows the core idea of Nanavati murder case and adds a layer of extra intrigue. The plan is to make a spicy plot spicier but turns it cardboard.

The uniform might be the most accurate thing about this film, however, a painfully tacky production where all the sets look like over-saturated cardboard and all the taxicabs are gleaming.

Rustom is largely inoffensive, even passable in the main, but could have been infinitely better had the screenplay not been so utterly conventional and unimaginative.

The tacky production values (the Parsis will especially cringe at the neon green walls of Rustom’s house) and poor CGI make the period film an eyesore.

A fictionalised version of the famous (or the infamous?) Nanavati case where a Naval officer shot his wife’s lover should have been a brilliant courtroom drama, but ends up being ridiculous, with the director opting for cheap laughs. Akshay Kumar looks handsome in the uniform, but the mooch… the mooch…

Apart from Akshay, who looks dapper in his white Navy uniform, the loose narrative fails to hold our attention.

Keeping aside the high expectations, ‘Rustom’ ends up being a one time pot-boiler drama, which works only in parts and that too for ‘Akshay Kumar’ as its sole positive reason. Akshay fans who are expecting yet another ‘Special 26’ or ‘Baby’ or ‘Airlift’, will be highly disappointed as the movie comes now here to these classics.

This one’s worth a watch only for Akshay Kumar. But if you’re looking for laughs, Esha Gupta could help too.

What could have been an interesting premise and a nick at the seemingly utopian nature of suburban marriages disintegrates into a film that focuses on celebrating the hero, played by Kumar.

Rustom despite having an interesting plot tries to play safe, please everyone and resorts to Bollywood formulae of forced humour and even more forced insipid songs.