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Shehzada is written in the 80s/90s style where children are swapped at birth and later find out when they grow up. The movie has a lot of comedic giants like Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav, Rakesh Bedi and Ali Asgar. But none of them are given any funny lines and none of the dialogue feels spontaneous or improvised. All actors arrived to work, said their lines and left. Kartik Aaryan, who is deep in typecastedness, delivers his usual rants but they fall flat. Kriti Sanon probably was the wisest of the cast and disappeared in the second half. Ronit Roy, Manisha Koirala and Sachin Khedekar have a few decent emotional scenes but the generic writing lessens the impact of the dramatic scenes in the second half. The music is lacklustre but audience is still treated to about 50 songs give or take. At least that's what it felt like. And this was just in the first half. Discounting the songs from film would have probably taken 20-25 minutes from the total length of the film that stands at 150 mins. That's two and a half hours. It was long. And boring. Overall, Shehzada is a hot mess. It had a lot of potential in the chosen ingredients but ultimately fails to entertain.

SRK is back after a hiatus and although a commercial success, Pathaan is a really boring film. The writing is very uninspired and is just a mish mash of various action set pieces shot in beautiful locations. The movie is shot well for the most. It's the other technical areas where the film fails miserably. The VFX, green screen, sound mixing, background music, and acting are way below par. Action movies need good action and a good villain. Pathaan has neither. The fight choreography is repetitive. Stunts are not exciting. The cameo by the other big Khan is nice but too short in an otherwise indulgently long feature. Overall, it's a snooze fest.