Like Vijay, Dev is very much the “Angry Young Man.” However, as good as Kapoor is, he can’t give the character the layers that Sukumaran could Vijay, because the writing for Deva is so much more generic.

Naming a film after a titular character skews the script: everything flows from hero Shahid Kapoor’s actions and reactions...

It’s a movie in service of its star, a movie that panders to an obsolete audience instead of pushing them towards the path of progress.

After a long wait, we have a mainstream flick where the hero makes you forget the lapses in the logic of the screenplay as director Rosshan Andrrews mounts his Malayalam blockbuster, Mumbai Police, for the Hindi heartland