7 Khoon Maaf

Anyone who's grown up on Ruskin Bond stories will recognise the tell-tale signs of his creation as 7 Khoon Maaf builds its pace - Anglo-Indian generals, candle-lit Victorian interiors and rustic churches. Vishal Bharadwaj, with ample help from his art directors, is no doubt a master in metamorphosing a writer's mental rantings into visual extravagance, as has been evident in his earlier films.

In 7 Khoon Maaf, he builds each scene like a stage-act, breathes life into fictional figures and provides background music building into crescendos, but somewhere in between conceptualiz....