Kumar underplays it in an OTT Bombay-set murder story with some adventurous camerawork Shamelessly tarting up a proper-life society scandal,this period melodrama suggests director Dharmendra Suresh Desai has swallowed recent Todd Haynes projects whole. Akshay Kumar is the eponymous navy man who enters a police station in ancient Bombay (as it was in 1958) and confesses to shooting the industrialist who cuckolded him – a simple crime of passion, complicated by gutter-press stirring, or institutional corruption and the accused’s officer-grade tactical nous. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com