For many, it anyway is. It certainly gets most basics right - an unrelentingly gripping plot, sterling performances and dialogues, and the stamp of contemporary Bollywood class in production quality. So when the movie is done and your blood is still gushing in your veins, you'll clap with an enthusiasm you reserve for rare moments that you couldn't predict would happen just a half-hour earlier. Which is payback in itself, given the average Bollywood movie.
Only, with the most important challenge - explaining the modus operan....