One wishes that with some artistic ambition and imagination it had gathered better speed and altitude. Alas, it seems in more of a hurry to touch down and land than keep soaring high.

Ajay Devgn's Runway 34 breaks away from the Bollywood formula. The film is inconsistent, but also ambitious and in places, thrilling.

In its zeal to paint Vikrant a hero, despite clear signs of transgression, he is made into a saviour with a photographic memory whose heart is in the right place. And to that end, the plot reduces all the other actors to bit parts.

Runway 34 is ostensibly a male saviour drama. As if on cue, the women are presented as decorative objects written with wafer thin imagination.