Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara

There was a time when Hindi cinema idolised the "hero" - an epigram-mouthing, moustache-twirling, villain-bashing man, whose moral integrity and honesty was strong enough to bend iron. Then came films like Deewar (with Amitabh Bacchan as a firebrand rebel out to get everything that a hypocritical system denies him), Vastaav (with Sanjay Dutt immortalising the long-kurta-and-tilak-on-the-forehead look), and Company (with Ajay Devgn's smouldering portrayal of a ruthless underworld chieftain).

And just like that, Indian audiences were rooting for the "anti-heroes", the schem....