In Singham Again scale is everything. The film has eight stars, six screenplay writers and three writers who worked on dialogue, including director and co-producer Rohit Shetty. The hardware on display is equally expansive – there are battleships, helicopters, dozens of cars that get blown up and smashed. Also, weapons large and small – missiles, guns, machetes. At one point, Tiger Shroff brandishes the Urumi, an Indian sword with a whip-like blade which originated in modern-day Kerala. There is so…

Laapataa Ladies is about exactly that – women who are lost. The film is set in 2001 in a fictional state called Nirmal Pradesh. In an absurdly comical comedy of errors, Phool and Jaya, both new brides in rural India, with their ghoonghats reaching below their noses, end up without their husbands. But these women are also lost, metaphorically. They are chained by their own conditioning and oppressive patriarchal structures. In The Lunchbox, Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s character Shaikh, famously proclaims, ‘kabhi…