Bharat

Bharat is way too ponderous and plodding.

Yes, it's all very Bajrangi Bhaijaan, and all very 'filmi', haha, but who doesn't love the idea of long-separated loved ones being reunited? Treacle it may be, but the tears are real. And moving: my eyes were moist, even when I knew I was being played.

The South Korean film on which this is based in a masterclass in melodrama, while this is bloated and inconsistent...

A corny drama about the title character's quest to support and do right by his family in post-partition India.

Bharat needs rewrites, or at least some kind of breath test.

One of the primary problems of Bharat is that it is an insipid film from beginning till the end. It invoked zero emotions and felt flat whenever it is trying to make me laugh, cry or motivate.

What the film delivers is way short of the bar that it sets for itself.

Historical family Bollywood action drama has some violence.

Despite the solid base in remaking Ode to My Father, Bharat turns out to be a very middling experience, undercutting genuine emotion and tension with cheap humour and overdrawn sequences.

This true and rugged representation of life restores the balance somewhat in this film where logic vanishes into thin air.