Occasionally rousing, mostly laboured placeholder.

...there is so little that engages in this crowded canvas, written by Niren Bhatt, Suresh Mathew and Afrun Falara, that the result is a pair of hurting ears and glazed eyes.

Hamstrung by a stop-start screenplay and an undisguised effort to keep the Maddock multiverse connected, the festive fare of ‘Thamma’ lacks the emotional depth of ‘Stree’ and the bite of ‘Bhediya’

Thamma is packed with romance, supernatural action, horror, cameos, and franchise ambition - but it forgets the simplest rule of storytelling: make us care.