Blackmail

Fridays bring in the lives of movie reviewers the ultimate question - do we get paid enough to put ourselves through so much self-inflicted angst for three hours? But sometimes, just sometimes, a movie like Blackmail comes along that tells us how wrong we have been in asking ourselves that question. Because, one, it is only a two hour movie, and two, no one can ever get paid enough to do this job.

That does not mean that it is a bad movie. In fact, we are still unable to decide whether it is a movie and not a prank played by the Devgan family (the credits read all Devgan) on the....