The gender reversal in the matchmaking game and the obsession with fairness, portrayed at the very start of the film, is as much a hearty chuckle, a biting satire as it is a definitive statement.

Thappad is subdued but doesn't hold back in asserting skewed gender equations and building a case for violence is violence and all its forms must be condemned seriously.'

Cinematographer Pankaj Kumar seems well on his way to joining the pantheon of visual artists whose images last for generations.

Honey Trehan's whodunnit Raat Akeli Hai ticks all the right boxes.