New Delhi, Nov. 28 -- Mukti's stalker has just turned up at her engagement party and thrown Molotov cocktails. She responds by hugging and trying to reason with him. He blames her for everything, threatens to kill her, kill himself, suggests the two of them die by suicide. When he's finally dragged off by the police, she breaks down in the arms of her fiance, tells him their tortured history. What manner of comfort might Jassi offer his future wife? The first thing he says is, "Shouldn't you apologize to him?"

The one true thing in Tere Ishk Mein is Kriti Sanon's horrified face. This is to be expected, since Anand L Rai's film is a long and winding road to the abject humbling of Mukti. But after a while, I couldn't help but see in it San...