For Bala's makers to cast a fairer-skinned Bhumi Pednekar in a role that requires dark skin, only perpetuates society's fascination with 'being white'.
Looking at War, it seems like an unwritten rule that if a cocktail of ideas work at the box office, the producers try to conjure a franchise out of it.
In Marjaavaan, the film's characters seem to be in a parallel universe where they're sincerely trying (& colossally failing) at the single-screen routine.