Kai Po Che!

[The acting] is technically accomplished, but never quite transcends their scripted traits, rendering the film's tonal shifts more matter of fact than emotionally wrenching.

A rollicking male-bonding picture about three buddies who open a cricket academy in India's exotic Gujarat, Brothers for Life turns extremely dark and violent in the last half hour, becoming a far more significant film.

A film that might be the next Bend It Like Beckham - if it did not have the sensibilities of the next Dr. Zhivago.

Its performances are enjoyably boisterous, and director Abhishek Kapoor refuses to linger on clichés for too long ...

Mixes, not quite successfully, traditional Bollywood storytelling with something less conventional.

It's a sprawling tale of friendship during a tumultuous time of sectarian strife in India.

Kai Po Che! is a moving portrait of friendship, loss, forgiveness.

The performances are strong throughout, but both Yadav and Rajput particularly impress, as they imbue their potentially clichéd roles of egghead accountant and hot-headed control freak with true depth.

Thought-provoking, moving and ultimately heart-warming, Kai Po Che! is what great cinema is made of.

Three friends fight for careers in a rapidly changing India in this smart adaptation of a best-selling novel.

The dramatic stakes are so puny that every obstacle can be overcome with a simple work-it-out montage, a cheap device prevalent enough in this movie to start a drinking game.