Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster 3

The weakest of the trilogy, this story takes exceedingly long to set up the key players and their motivations.

The longer a scene is, the more abruptly it ends. The shorter it is, the more clueless its timing becomes.

The first two Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster films were gratifying action-and-vengeance-packed rides. This one is just okay.

It has taken the third Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster instalment five years to take shape. One had expected time to add value to it. That does not seem to have happened.

Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster has many moments of unintended hilarity and none of the crackling dialoguebaazi its predecessors became famous for.

Whatever little momentum the thriller aspect of this film creates, is washed out by the lacklustre drama that constantly interjects the narrative.

With so many characters there is often a problem of plenty, but with taut writing and an unpredictable narrative, writers Sanjay Chouhan and Tigmanshu Dhulia manage to stay ahead of the curve.

The law of diminishing returns has finally caught up...While Saheb Biwi aur Gangster 3 has a few more characters than the previous films, it has lost much of its narrative coherence.

The dialogues in Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3 are expected to bring out the gritty side of the actors but they do exactly the opposite. They are forced, not in tandem with their surrounding and tonally different from the film.

All in all, Dhulia has made an entertaining film which thrives because of the efforts of its main cast. It's an earthy saga, where the boundaries between good and evil are almost nonexistent.