I have not had this much fun watching a Hindi movie in a long time!

Rajkummar Rao is reliably solid, Sikandar Kher livens things up, and Radhika Apte has so much fun as the female version of the standard quirky cop that you wish she had more to do.

Murder, intrigue, suspense: ‘Monica O My Darling’ aims at giving you thrills and spills, and pretty much hits its mark. A neo-noir, crime comedy thriller that also doubles up as a murder mystery, Monica O My Darling isn't your usual Bollywood commercial potboiler. Or at least that's what you'd like to believe until you actually sit through and watch this 2-hour-10-minutes long film and realise that it's so Bollywoodised that you just can't get over the plot twists and predictability of events, which make this Vasan Bala directorial a fun watch.

Robotics expert Jayant Arkhedkar (Rajkummar Rao) is an ambitious man, determined to put his mundane life behind him. When the film opens, it shows him heading straight to the stratosphere, hoicked to a top job in his company, the founder of said company gaga over him, and daughter of said founder enamoured of him. ‘Naukri, ladki, sab kuchh’. You’d think, as would Jayant, that all will henceforth be a bed of roses. But as we know, the best laid plans of mice and men, and in this instance a few reptilian creatures, can and do, go awry. Murders are committed, things go south, and hit rockbottom with an almighty clang.