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BRB, gotta go clean up this blood leaking ominously from my ear after spending a few minutes trying to parse <PERSON> gender politics again...
Anyway, minus the above, which is a mess as usual but less of one than Coolie No 1, this is a lot of fun, with some all-time <PERSON> fits, good action, a surprisingly twisty plot with a couple big payoffs (and even a meaty, non-sexualized female role for <PERSON>!).
The romance is only slightly problematic on the KRR scale, but it would be underbaked if not for <PERSON>'s superhuman ability to generate chemistry with any co-star not named <PERSON>. In this case, it's <PERSON>, sister of <PERSON>, with whom he also did a complicated and frustrating KRR movie about a poor man shaming a snobby rich girl by forcing her to marry him (at least this time it's a bet rather than blackmail/babytrapping, so I guess that's progress).
Honestly I had fun with this. Maybe I've just become so desensitized by the most misogynistic KRR movies that an only somewhat misogynistic one feels like a win, but relative to my expectations this over achieved, and all the performances were good. 292