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without making a song and dance, cinematography by Anay Goswami and eepa bhatia that says it all without a single shot being redundant, and most of all, a terrific gallery of actors who make the brotherly bonding look so real you feel other celebrated films about male bonding (including Abhishek Kapoor’s Rock On) were mere aking the core idea from bhagat’s novel, Kapoor weaves together a tapestry of thoughts, characters and lives that embrace an entire ethos and culture without sacrificing individuality.

And yet to describe Kai Po Che as a film on male bonding would be akin Dr Zhivago as a film on the medical profession.

Fearless and almost flawless, Kai Po bubbles over with the warmth of lived-in experiences and with central performances that are so unstudied you suspect the actors were born to play