Starring: Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Boman Irani, Vidya Balan

Scripts are very rarely this ambitious. Lage Raho combines humour, heightened emotion, bhai-speak, and Mahatma Gandhi in a unique, wholly original blend. Munnabhai MBBS won raucous acclaim, resulting in Sanjay and Arshad acquiring their greatest alter egos ever, Munna and Circuit. It was always going to be a tough act to follow, but even if the sequel was half as good, it'd be a contender for film of the year.

But nobody expected this, a glorious celebration of the two title characters -- now virtually a desi Asterix and Obelix -- and their experiments with truth. It's a film that far eclipses the original, a tough ask. Treading a razor-sharp line, it handled hilarity and tears in the same scene, following it up with a super joke and alternating that with a message from the Mahatma. It's surreal, and the stuff cinematic dreams are made of: you watch the film in theatres unable to believe it can actually be this good. It is.

With the stunning script supported by an inch-perfect cast, Lage Raho is the rare example of a film where all quarters deliver, completely. As an angsty generation would agree, it's easier to make a dark, brooding film. This one, on the other hand, is drenched in hope and sunshine, and is unbelievably contagious. A don talking to the Mahatma and preaching non-violence -- on paper, the idea is preposterous; on screen, it's splendid.

The best Gandhi film ever.

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