In short, Bobby’s the sort of girl with whom you can’t help but fall in love. So go see Bobby Jasoos. With a little help from her friends and family, she’ll make you happier than you’ve felt in ages.

If you’re thinking of watching Humshakals, here’s a suggestion. Don’t do it. There are better things you can do with your money and being swallowed alive by a python is less excruciating than watching Sajid Khan’s latest attempt at making a movie.

The power of The World Before Her is its sensitive alertness to how these two very different platforms for Indian women both appear to be rotten planks. For all their apparent differences, Durga Vahini and Miss India have a lot in common. Whether in India or Bharat, it seems all anyone wants to do with women is mould them while pretending to empower them.

Bewakoofiyan is like the strapless bra — a good idea in theory but in practice, pointless and uncomfortable. Ladies in particular, go watch Queen instead.

Bob Nelson’s script is a beautifully-crafted journey that doesn’t rush into anything. Nebraska unfolds elegantly, steadily and slowly. Sharply witty in parts, this is a tender, loving film. Filled with imperfect characters, almost every one of them has an arc.

Chaudhary’s script doesn’t have any of the maturity that real life demands of a married couple. Despite having two actors who are happily married in real life, what Shaadi… gives us is a portrait of a resoundingly unhappy marriage between two people who have just one flash of passionate chemistry right at the start of the film. After that, it’s just unhappily ever after.

Gulabi Gang is a documentary that you should watch with Google at hand. It’s not comprehensive because Jain doesn’t delve into either Pal’s own history or the beginnings of Gulabi Gang. Neither does it provide a particularly in-depth understand of Bundelkhand’s social hierarchies. The villages in the documentary could have been in any part of north or central India. But Gulabi Gang does an offer a glimpse into why Pal, with her ego and her confidence, is such a hero to those who commit to the pink sari: she’s one of the few women who are committed to fighting for other women and the oppressed.

Pompeii is a disaster movie, so it’s not as though anyone should expect much by way of logic or narrative, but you do expect some spectacles.

The message in The Lego Movie is simple: if you haven’t built things using Lego, you haven’t lived. For those whose childhood doesn’t include a Lego set, the good news is that you’re never too old to start with Lego. The Lego Movie is pure joy made out of colourful, interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of minifigures and other parts.

…Why watch an overwhelmingly sad film about a man who spends 12 years as a slave in faraway America, back in the 19th century? What does it matter to you and me here in India? Why suffer more than two hours of a cinematic lecture about a culture and history that isn’t ours? Because 12 Years A Slave is about something we’d all like to believe we have: the human spirit.