Release date: 17th April 2019

Cast: Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Maduri Dixit, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Sonakshi Sinha

Director: Abhishek Verman

Run time: 2hrs 48mins

Rating: 3/5

A tale of love and stigma, Abhishek Varman’s Kalank is occasionally moving, but mostly an unsatisfying melodrama. Set in the pre-Independence era, in the fictional city of Husnabad, the movie’s six pivotal characters crave love, but can’t have it. Roop (Bhatt) finds herself becoming the reluctant wife of Dev Chaudhry (Kapur) , a newspaper editor, whose first wife Satya (Sinha) is terminally ill and wants to see her husband settled before she dies. Stuck in a loveless marriage, Roop finds herself drawn to Zafar (Dhawan), the local blacksmith and the illegitimate son of a courtesan named Bahaar Begum (Dixit) and Balraj Chaudhary (Dutt).