Black & White

Subhash Ghai wants to be relevant again. In a time when Ghai’s films and the styling thereof are widely thought of as campy and old, no one waits for a Ghai film anymore. There is no anticipation or nostalgia of the Subhash Ghai style of filmmaking. Ghai perhaps realized his importance dwindling, and this is a stab at getting relevant again, getting that edge back again.

Unfortunately, an ego massage for a filmmaker rarely makes for good cinema. Ghai in his ambition has chosen to tell a small-scale story of a fidayeen terrorist changing his mindset on Islam and India, through ....