Laal Kaptaan
U/A: Action, Drama
Director: Navdeep Singh
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Manav Vij, Zoya Hussain
Rating: 

Frankly, there's far more to this film than for it to be looked at simply centred on its star (Saif Ali Khan), who's stunning, no doubt. Or the rating, that by virtue of it being vaguely indicative, becomes reductive, anyway.

What we effectively experience here is a valiant attempt at merging the East, with the Western. By which I mean not the West. But the Western as myth/genre that has its roots in Hollywood alone — with by and large no reference to reality, or history, whatsoever. Where a lone man on horseback rides into the only street of a village/hamlet of gun-slingers, sheriff, the works.