Can mainstream Hindi cinema defend itself against the charge that it is creatively bankrupt?
This is nostalgia for a city of legendary gangsters and heroic cops.
It is a treatise on corruption that is neither funny nor tragic, nor even moral.
An emotional film about a bitter growing-up experience, this is the stuff of good cinema.
Even for a film made a few years ago, it does have rather outdated views on relationships.
You will definitely hate syrupy love stories by the time this movie ends.
Sheer incredulity at the film’s solutions to the country’s ills keeps one transfixed.
A disaster both from Mani Ratnam’s side as well as the lead actors’ interpretation of their characters.
A prequel to the legend, but with Russell Crowe miscast as the witty and lovable thug.