...[The film] can be seen reaching for emotional highs, and you will it with all your might to get there, and then along comes another speech-to-camera, another declarative dive, which undermines the moment, and the cumulative drama.

Doesn't achieve the brilliant, blistering power of its source material

It's an unusual comparison to make, but Shazia Iqbal's Dhadak 2 has more in common with Joaquin Phoenix's billion-dollar-grossing Joker movie than you'd imagine.

Dhadak 2 borrows its beats from Pariyerum Perumal but vibrates with its own music. It is a tender task, situated between adapting and creating, performing and inhabiting, miming and mining.