Batla House
U/A: Drama, historical
Director: Nikkhil Advani
Cast: John Abraham, Mrunal Thakur
Rating:

No seriously, is this part of an ongoing Bollywood season for issuing 'clean chit' at the movies, for famous figures? Whose own versions of truth on screen, over a contentious real-life incident or event — despite previously held assertions/evidences to the contrary — exonerate them from a misdemeanour or crime they're alleged to have committed? That hero could be a cinema superstar, or indeed India's top politician. And that in this case, it's the Delhi Police? Well.

To be fair, while news-media is fairly central to this film's plot, and there's the usual tapli or two, the press is hardly portrayed as singularly responsible for spinning a completely false narrative. One has come to expect it from a movie such as this. Politicians seem more like the villain here. Rings true.