Fitoor’s acting pleases in parts. Tabu shines through moments of malevolent manipulation, snarling’Kaisa kamzarf waqt aa gaya hai’, as she glares balefully at Noor, then smiles sweetly at him.
Ajay Devgn has a cameo as a growling jihadi, all bark but no bite, while Rahul Bhat, the most consistent here, impresses as heavy-lidded Bilal.
Aditya occasionally conveys a bewildered lover lost in a whimsical world while Katrina looks gorgeous but mostly stays placid.
To play with a great quote, oh what a tangled web we weave, when we learn to retrieve - in this case, retrieving a classic indeed caused a tangle, albeit one of Pashmina dhaagas.
You get style - including six-pack Noor painting shirtless(explains why artists score more - can you imagine writers taking their tops off to work?) - but little depth.