Ananth, who acts as an onscreen director and off-screen director, doesn't quite match up to the execution with the 60's style investigative murder mystery. He mostly uses sleaziness of the actresses and dialogues, besides a good narration. Had it been relevant to ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai' in context to the dialogues inspired by the late era, the flick would have been a decent replication of the dramatic Bollywood flicks, loved by the movie buffers. However, not all dialogues appear naïve.
Most of them suit Himesh as he ties hard to make those one-liners look effective but he couldn't help the story and the screenplay (by him) which is as skinny and made-up as he himself is in this flick.
The narrator Alec D'Costa, played by influential actor Irrfan Khan, exposing the dark underbelly of the Bollywood and unmasking its larger-than-life superstars, couldn't paint the blemishes in this flick.
