We'd mentioned earlier, while writing about Hora Hori, how we now pay extra care to censor certificates to see the runtime of movies. Well, that movie was 164 minutes long and elicited quite a few groans. Today, the first thing we noticed was that Shivam was 168 minutes long. We said our prayers immediately and hoped this would be better.
When the director hinted at a flashback about an hour after the interval, we realized it wasn't our lucky day. And when the said flashback began at around the 140-minute mark, it was game over. Because whatever type of movie you make, y....