Looking At The Best & Beast On The Big Screen, March 2025 News24 –

  March will be remembered for producer Sajid Nadiadwala  and actor  Salman Khan’s combined catastrophe. Sikandar is a disaster on every level. Who greenlit this disastrous venture? I feel sorry for the supporting cast. A R Murugadoss’s  directorial calibre has dipped drastically. He needs to take a long break. He has just done the unthinkable: made a film that even the Salmaniacs hate.

Salman Khan’s  new release is a travesty  of all good taste and a mockery of all rational justification for a film to exist. It also shamelessly mocks Salman’s superstardom by giving him a screenplay, probably  written as a joke by someone who has a grudge against him, which treats his royal character like some kind of a super-hero who was lobotomized by marauders when the haveli’s  doors were open.

 March was also the month when the underrated Shivam Nair taught the film industry lessons on tautness. The Diplomat was the best film last month, buoyed by a restrained effective performance by John Abraham who certainly knows what is good for him, unlike some other superstars who just don’t know where to get off.

Three other releases of the  month Be  Happy, Inn Galiyon Mein and Tumko Meri Kasam meant well . Good intentions don’t always translate into  positive  viewership.

Be happy on OTT isn’t entirely bereft of joy. But it is  way too unambitious and vanilla-sweet  to cope with the  cutthroat competition. Inn Galiyon Mein  was a  small film with long legs. Pithy and pungent ,it takes us  into a lane in Lucknow  where Hindus and Muslims co-exist.  Tumko Meri Kasam is not  a grand masterpiece. However Vikram Bhatt  not only takes up  a subject that is  true life and  potentially inspiring, he suffuses the  narrative  with  evidence of his own  healing process.