Not content with being a homage to Indian pulp fiction, Haseen Dillruba—the new Netflix movie starring Taapsee Pannu and Vikrant Massey—is also a mix of cringe comedy, ‘90s Bollywood romance, and C.I.D. infused with crime noir. Unsurprisingly, it does none of that well.
We discuss why Pannu needs a better director than Vinil Mathew, his inability to handle the motley of genres at play, and what’s going on with Kanika Dhillon’s screenplay, from the inadvertent undermining of the film’s feminist tone to the tone-deaf tackling of toxic masculinity.
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