Bulbbul is fashioned as a sharply relevant fable. It is a powerfully feminist, revisionist tale of a woman wronged, and it is told with economy, precision, style and feeling.

Dimri is a stunner who speaks volumes with her eyes. And the audience can do little but stay enraptured.

An anti-fairytale at its very core, this feminist fable is arguably the most gorgeous looking thing to have come out of Hindi cinema all year.

This densely layered and visually stunning Bollywood import plays a little like the classic Japanese horror film Audition.