Cocktail

But this isn’t a film that try as it might, comes across as being offensive. That’s because it has bigger problems, like its sorry lack of imagination and repetitive bad humour, that assault you on a more primal level. The singular advantage of watching such a film on an OTT platform (Zee5) is that you can constantly keep yourself aware of how much longer you will have to endure the pain. The regular checking of the film’s duration serves as encouragement that the trauma will end eventually, even if it doesn’t feel so. It’s been a hard time, what with the lockdown and all, and at times, it has felt like things just cannot get worse. This film’s achievement is that it proved this notion wrong.

What it is instead is an SOP guide on how best to shoot a film if COVID-19 restrictions limit filming crews to constitute less than 30 people.