Shubhra Gupta

Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata movie cast: Kangana Ranaut, Girija Oak Godbole, Smita Tambe, Esha Dey, Suhita Thatte, Asha Shelar, Aditya Mishra, Zahid Khan, Sayyaji Shinde Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata movie director: Manoj Tapadia Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata movie rating: 3 stars

Right from the beginning, Brown works hard at justifying it being named after its lead character.

Governor movie cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Noushad Mohamed Kunju, Madhoo, Adah Sharma, Paritosh Sand Governor movie director: Chinmay D Mandlekar Governor movie rating: 1.5 stars

Our smiles, broadest when the terrific duo of Jameel Khan and Geetanjali Kulkarni hold centre-stage, now come laced with impatience.

But ‘Do You Wanna Partner’ is plain terrible: there’s not one idea or performance that it can grab on to to save itself from going under, and staying there.

But the execution is so confused and dull that we lose interest in the human sitting in that deadly chair much too soon, and by the time the kicker kicks in, we are supremely unbothered by how things actually went down.

And that’s clearly a scripting triumph: Rai has co-written the film with Kislay (the director of the terrific ‘Aise Hee’), creating a gentle, felt tapestry of dreams and desires.

The film is a strong indictment of mismatched people yoked into marriages not of their making.

As Dhunu strains towards her goal – the acquisition of a guitar so she can start her own band – you can sense the strong parallel with Das’ own strivings to make her film.

The device of using voice-overs through which Ana remembers her father (whom we never see) is initially discordant, but it is made up for by Koechlin’s arresting, unvarnished presence through the film.

Dulquer’s conflicted cop character comes off particularly dull, even though an edge is infused into it after a while.