As much as I’d like to reward Lootera for it’s craft I firmly believe that films can only win you over with the ability to tell a story. And this is where Lootera falters. It allows you to drift away. And this is why Udaan, despite struggling on the technical front with its 16 mm camera and stark walls, will always be an exceptional and better film.

Dabangg is now officially a genre. Overall the objective of the genre is to show a common, “honest” policeman as a superhero. If with one stomp of the boot, Baba can make cars fly, can Krrish do anything more impressive?

Ghanchakkar is all very well as it flags off, but it’s mostly downhill after it hits its high point in the first fifteen minutes.

Enemmy had somme potential as a thriller of with a Rashommon-esque touch as it entirely revolves a single key incident and has three parties trying to figure it out. But it fails, ultimmately, to showcase its strengths.

Shortcut Romeo has it all – racism, classism, and every other ism you can think of. The Maasai tribal people are made to sound and look like hyena-howling kung fu fighters as they’re bashed up single-handedly by Sooraj for no fault of their own. At one point – midway in the first half – when they’re about to get the better of him and drive a dagger through his chest you can’t help but hope they succeed and put an end to our collective misery.

Ankur Arora has an important point to make and a scary reality to represent. Often we equate doctors with god-like reverence, but occasionally they might mistakenly believe that they are, indeed, god

While the ambition of Aurangzeb is to be lauded, there just isn’t enough steam to see it through till the end. And at well over two hours, that end seems very far off. Try it then, for its complexity and Kapoor and Shroff.