The true story of ageing champion sharpshooters is told with warmth, though relies heavily on quickfire montage to hit its targets
This would-be Hindi crowdpleaser (title translation: Bullseye) drew
fire over on home turf when it was announced that its subjects Chandro and Prakashi Tomar – real-life sisters-in-law who took up a successful competitive
shooting career in their 60s – would be played by the considerably younger pairing of 32-year-old Taapsee Pannu and 30-year-old Bhumi Pednekar.
The resulting film however – easily the sunniest, least challenging feature to which maverick producer Anurag Kashyap has yet put his name – seems unlikely to generate further outrage. In a movie aiming for a mild form of social commentary, it makes sense to position two versatile performers as greying, latex-wrinkled fixed points as the world changes around them.