Film Review: "Thugs of Hindostan" Thugs of Vijay Krishna Acharya's expensive and exuberant Bollywood masala delivers the goods as a satisfying popcorn epic. Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya With: Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Ila Arun, Mohammad Zeeshan Ayub, Lloyd Owen, Gavan Marshall. (Hindi, English dialogue) Release Date: Nov 8, 2018 2 hours 44 minutes Reportedly the biggest-budgeted and most widely released Bollywood production ever, “Thugs of Hindostan” is an exuberantly excessive masala of swashbuckling heroics, broader-than-broad comedy, propulsively choreographed action, and raucously caffeinated song-and-dance sequences. Writer-director Vijay Krishna Acharya, a creative force behind the popular “Dhoom” movies, has borrowed freely from Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean,” even to the point of having Indian superstar Aamir Khan often come across as a smudged carbon of Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow while playing a similarly unre...