Bala

In the recent past, there has been this trend of semi-mainstream Bollywood cinema embracing an unconventional concept, and treating it as the "be all and end all". Generally set in small-town India, these films put way too much emphasis on the idiosyncrasies of the characters they portray.

Real life, however, is a little different - varied individual experiences shape the narrative here - and this one-track fixation on the core idea tends to take away from the movie as a whole. Between their shallow social commentaries and somewhat formulaic third acts, such films seem like they s....