After committing a mistake called Kisna two years ago, Subhash Ghai is back in the business with Black & White. This time, terror is the flavour and Ghai has given glitz a go-by.

So newcomer Anurag Sinha comes all the way from Afghanistan to Red Fort to “brood and let brood”.

The would-be suicide bomber spends considerable time looking, peeping and sighing at the monument, and drawing sketches of the site so that the mission doesn’t bomb on Independence Day.

Ghai gives some good moments and manages to keep patriotic bass at bearable levels. Yet, Black & White remains a wasted opportunity with a hurried climax and an unconvincing U-turn by the hero.

What peps up the show is vintage wine Anil Kapoor with a performance only actors of his breed can pull off.

Shefali Shah does an okay act, but suffers from bouts of drama as Kapoor’s activist wife and the official Hindu-Muslim peacekeeper of Chandni Chowk.

Ghai needn’t have imposed the regular rain regime on his heroine (fresh face Aditi Sharma). Anurag Sinha and his lady get to share an umbrella, but the romance just wouldn’t bloom.

It’s not the usual Friday fare, but one wishes Black & White had some more lively shades to it.