I don't take it write a review for a film even though I follow films very passionately. I have decided to do it because, althought most of the critics louded ranbir performance, I have seen few comments trying to be little ranbir controlled, methodical performance by comparing it to vicky loudy written character.
First of all I never understood why to praise one actor you need to degrade the other. Coming back to these specific performances, I believe both ranbir and vicky were outstanding in their respective parts, vicky's character was written in a single note and was loud, he nailed it by giving a fine loud, dramatic performance with a lot of spantiniety and sincerity and without going OTT.
Where'as ranbir character had many shades and many episodes, ranbir clinched each parts with perfection.
From getting dutt swag to his voice he almost disappeared into sunjay dutt but jever went into mimicry or a caricature.
It was a kind of a role where the biggest actors could end up hamming.
It would be 3 stars for the 1st half, 4 stars for the 2nd half and one extra for ranbir and vicky's performance