"The Legend Of Michael Mishra"

It took me a while to figure out what is wrong with Manish Jha's third feature film, and his first in nine years.

"The Legend Of Michael Mishra" is the movie equivalent of Eddie Redmayne's character in "The Danish Girl". This is a case of role assumption, a personality masquerade. While Redmayne played a girl trapped in a man's body, "The Legend Of Michael Mishra" is an animation film masquerading as a feature.

There is no other explanation for the filmed ferocity of cartoonish excesses that slash across the two-hour film in flinch-inducing flamboyance. The savagely broad satirical strokes with which the characters are painted, make the people who populate Manish's world look like puppets on a swig. ...more3...