PG, 140mins

Credibility clearly doesn’t trouble the makers of Cheeni Kum (Less Sugar), a London-set Bollywood reboot of the romantic comedy As Good as it Gets. Here the legendary Amitabh Bachchan plays a crotchety sexagenarian chef at an upmarket Chelsea restaurant who falls for a feisty thirtysomething tourist, played by Tabu (last seen in Mira Nair’s The Namesake).

London montages are on the menu as our paramours go on topographically dubious dates that swing from Hyde Park to Wimbledon to Carnaby Street to Westminster in one afternoon.

Here, the director and former commercials guru R. Balakrishnan opts for mood over realism and displays an alarming penchant for shooting Bachchan in slow mo, striding down Knightsbridge side streets. Bachchan himself typically drips with screen charisma, and is more compelling the less he does. He tends, however, to drift into crude semaphoric screen acting during the big emotional scenes. Which can be distracting.

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