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Subhash K Jha is once again focussing on a film that is well, maybe, not the best in this edition of This Day That Drivel: as he revisits Bharat Bhagya Vidhata, which released in 2002.

If only wishes were cabinet portfolios. Bihari Babu Shatrughan Sinha plays an idealistic Home Minister battling militancy in the Valley. The Kashmir problem was so poorly depicted in Vinod Chopra’s Mission Kashmir and Tinu Verma’s Maa Tujhe Salaam that any attempt to tackle the core issue, albeit on a basic and simplistic level, raises our interest level in the potboiler genre of the Hindi commercial cinema.

Director Osho Raja, who earlier made some unsuccessful mixed-up mainstream films under his real name Ashok Tyagi, tackles the issue on a strictly “filmy” level. Except for the conflicted militant Shabbir (Chandrachur Singh), the characters are all one-dimensional heroes from the Indian government services and villains, naturally from...

TollywoodThe film is about a man with Alien Hand Syndrome, but the story meanders too much and has too many loopholes.Krishna SripadaAlien Hand Syndrome - a disorder where one of the hands (usually the left) has a mind of its own - is the biggest spark in this movie. Why the movie is called Savyasachi, which as the Wiki-page suggests, means ambidextrous, I could not understand. But, the title of a movie is usually not so important, so let's ignore that. Why the alien hand has almost Thor-like superpowers, with the neurons reddening each time, is something I could not understand. But, such theatrics are not so important, so let's ignore that. The doctor tells the protagonist's mother about his disorder and suggests a solution - get rid of the neurons in the alien hand - but she decides against it. I would rather have two sons, she says...