India, April 22 -- The 127-minute trailer montage for the new Michael Jackson biopic is a frantic tapestry stitched together from every music movie cliche imaginable, the rumbling tour bus, the high-stakes recording studio, the soaring billboard charts, and the corporate boardrooms to portray the journey of the most controversial and groundbreaking music figures of the 20th century.

Though billed as the definitive cinematic portrait of the 'King of Pop', the film struggles to move beyond the familiar beats of the singer's early life, chronicling his meteoric rise from the Jackson 5 era with a heavy hand.

This is a legendary artist who needs no introduction. But what about the famous off-camera Jackson, often described as a complicated, ...