If you want to know the meaning of the German word 'schadenfreude,' you only have to look at the response to Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet to see it demonstrated in action.

Described as 'the feeling of joy or pleasure when one sees another fail or suffer misfortune,' the word amply describes the reviewer's freshly sharpened knives and the smug gloating that followed the film's release.