UDTA PUNJAB - So much hullabaloo for this!!

Shahid Kapoor's Tommy Singh could have been so so much better, there's so much slackness in the character, tch tch! As the grimy, abusive rapper he is excellent in swearing though, with almost all his sentences finishing with a be****hod! Throughout the first half his character has been reduced into just a buffon! Yes agreed, he wasn't goofy just for humor, it was the drugs talking. The frequent swanking, excessive flouncing, thrusting on stage, the tangled hair & the constant flashing of the V sign, literally living on a high is all very fine & aptly done by him but too much of it starts getting on your nerves after a point, until he meets Alia Bhatt & thankfully his character takes a dramatic turn(& for good!) From the moment he opens up to Alia till the finale when he goes out in search of her to free her from the goons, we get to see the Shahid we have been waiting for all along the glum first half of the film.
It's such a disappointment that we don't get to see enough of what really goes inside of him though there are flashes of it ,like his conversation with Alia or his self realization for some seconds inside the jail where he is praised by his teenage drug addict fans! This could have been Shahid Kapoor's yet another riveting performance post Kaminey & Haider, but alas! it's not.