Bharat is way too ponderous and plodding.

Yes, it's all very Bajrangi Bhaijaan, and all very 'filmi', haha, but who doesn't love the idea of long-separated loved ones being reunited? Treacle it may be, but the tears are real. And moving: my eyes were moist, even when I knew I was being played.

The South Korean film on which this is based in a masterclass in melodrama, while this is bloated and inconsistent...

What the film delivers is way short of the bar that it sets for itself.