Jewel Thief: The Heist Begins has two directors. Neither seem to be around when they are needed the most. The plot seems to be floating on auto-pilot. With a script that seems to be written on a piece of toilet paper, this is possibly Netflix’s worst original motion picture of all times. We can’t tell what’s around the corner, though. There is a promise for a sequel at the end of this film, a promise I hope would be nipped in the bud.

As we can see, heist makes waste. Jewel Thief proves it. It is shocking to believe that something so shoddily written could have gotten past Netflix’s checkpost. What were the approvers thinking? What were the actors thinking? What were Saif Ali Khan and Jaideep Ahlawat thinking when they decided to be part of this bilge binge?

I had to repeatedly pinch myself to...