Prashant Bhardwaj

Agenda based series. Criminals like Khalistanis and Charles Sobhraj are shown as heroes or victims, Indian state as oppressors. Even Billa & Ranga are shown as somehow wronged. And why does the central character Gupta have a punjabi accent? "greebi" instead of "gareebi". lot of other instances like that. itna toh mehnat kar sakte the yaar.

Not a patch on the original. All the actors gave fine performances. Yet, the story is just a bit too fragmented and somewhat overtwisted. To be fair, a sincere, honest effort is visible. The props are realistic: the model township to summon Beetlegeuse, sandworm from the original etc. However, the several things that the makers have tried to put together, just don't add up. This movie seems desperate. It is trying to do too many things: pay tribute to the original, cash on Wednesday's popularity, bring some novelty to Keaton's character by showing him as hunted, make some use for Catherine's character since she is there etc. etc. . They tried to stitch up everything in the end, but it's already too late by then. I took a nap a few times. Oh, btw, whose idea was it to put an overdose of tongue-in-cheek humor ?

Violence and sex sells. That's all this movie is about. That's what Ajay Devgan's movie was also about, by the way, and scores of others. I get it, even though I found the movie entertaining only in parts. What I don't get however, is why Bollywood keeps glorifying criminals, especially Dawood and Karim Lala? Showing them as some sort of a hero. Then they cry foul over being branded Urduwood, etc.

What a masterpiece dark comedy! Binge watched it in 3 days.