Anurag Kahsyap is a dark filmmaker. His neo-noir sensibilities honed as a scriptwriter in Satya and as a filmmaker in Black Friday and Gangs of Wasseypur jump at us as soon as Ugly’s opening credits grace the screen. Make no mistake, Ugly isn’t a celebration of melodramatic colour à la Sanjay Leela Bhansali nor is it a meander down NRI lane à la Karan Johar, rather, true to its name, it is a gritty film in the time and tested tradition of crime thrillers.