Ranbir Kapoor's back in Roy

While the Roy trailer doesn't look very enticing, it's good to see the Kapoor back.

Glory be, Ranbir Kapoor is back.

Though it remains to be seen exactly how much of the actor we’re actually going to see in Roy.

This isn’t because there is less of him in the trailer.

To the contrary, Roy is coasting on Ranbir’s shoulders, using him as the central protagonist/antagonist, the driving force of the film and the one meant to hold all our interest.

Nope, it’s because Ranbir’s name appears with a strange little parenthesis, an explanation that his is a 'dynamic appearance' which is an odd new term, possibly one that means it’s yet another cameo but he’s been paid enough to let the Roy makers promote the film as if it were one of his. Who knows.

Anyway, for now Roy throws up enough slickness and swooshy sounds to make it look like a Bhatt camp thriller made by a Farhan Akhtar fan.

Arjun Rampal, with stubble and a fedora, looks good but delivers dialogues with his traditional woodenness. He looks to be a movie director besotted by Jacqueline Fernandes who, in turn, looks appropriately fetching as she gaily dazzles both men.

Kapoor smirks as he tells her he’s “a tourist” because the trailer depicts something else entirely: art thief, assassin, secret agent, fictional character made up by Rampal... Roy could be all of these things and more. And while the trailer doesn’t look very enticing, it’s good to see Kapoor back. Because we really didn’t need the filmmakers to inform us that he’s 'dynamic.'