The problem lies in execution. Mickey Virus tries too hard to straddle the two worlds of cutting edge tech and laid-back teeny Delhi in a Bollywood film. This results in “hacking” that looks as if Andy Warhol designed the VFX.

I’ve had my fill with these South Indian action-comedy remakes and I suspect you have too. But it is said the customer is the boss and it is ultimately your decision to buy a ticket or not. If Akki slapping around a few people makes you feel any better, go for it.

Baat Bann Gayi tries hard to create a world that requires some serious suspension of disbelief on the part of the audience. But fails miserably and the characters of the film come out looking foolish.

Technically, the film scores high marks. A lot of it is shot in the dark, always tricky.
…War Chhod Na Yaar would’ve been a considerably better film if it were more balanced.

Besharam is just one more in the pile of masala excess. There’s nothing new here.
Filmmakers and stars should realise that a formula done fifty times over is not a similar golden egg-laying goose. The only motivation behind Besharam is to devise a hit– to work a spreadsheet and spit out receipts worth Rs 100 cr at the box office.

Phata Poster Nikhla Hero is a caper comedy that rides on pop culture and, in full awareness, cliches…
Essentially a gimmicky two-star film that entertains in bits, a half star extra for Salman Khan’s epic, self-deprecating cameo.

ikram Bhatt has finally nailed it. Horror Story is a confident film. So confident, in fact, that early into the movie one of the characters asks another if this is just one more “ghisi piti kahani” that they’re getting into.

Inspired by Box 507 (Spain, 2002), John Day is a slow, cumbersome watch that takes too much time to tell too little.

Grand Masti is unabashedly gross, vulgar, crass, shameless and fearlessly adult. But for a moment one has to step back from the noise of dissent – from the guardians of Indian culture and their histrionic fatwas – and ask yourself one simple question: Who are we to choose for others?

In this distressing time of remakes and hand-me-down inspirations, let’s remember Herman Melville, “It is better to fail at originality than to succeed in imitation.” Zanjeer manages neither.