I love my mass and twisted stuff, too. But I'm quite a sucker for good drama and emotional stuff.
The Kapoor-Bhat portion clicked for me on the angle of how Kapoor is a self-centred guy who cares for only himself and for the first time he cares for someone else. A little heart wringing happened.
And I loved the gender role turn when Bhat saves Kapoor from those guys. Unrealistic maybe, but very satisfying.
Udta Punjab is no Trainspotting. Nor is it a Requiem For A Dream. What's common to all these films is, of course, that they are all movies on drug abuse. The two films we just mentioned are particularly well-known for the way they get the viewer to see, and perhaps even feel, what the drug user experiences. Boyle and Arronofsky (and even Kashyap to an extent, with Dev D) successfully construct a visual and aural, and even emotional, projection of psychotropic experiences. Udta Punjab doesn't manage to be that kind of an overwhelming cinematic experience, but you can't deny that it is a screami....