I just don’t understand how the audience is expected to look over the fact that Dhoom 3 is nothing but a 3 hour long chase sequence with not just enough thrills. To add fuel to fire, what the makers thought as important is repeated and in slo-mo for effect. Sigh.

For many, the film might be a good enough on TV watch, but I just couldn’t help giving it an extra nudge for the heart it takes to make a film like this. One which takes an understanding, even if a slightly patronizing, look at the generation that’s over the hill.

Shahid Kapoor does make the most of it though. His comic timing as required for a film of this nature is decent, and he does his best to emote anger, fatigue, worry and the rest too. Unfortunately, the comic lines are either over-writtent to sound way too “filmy” or are inane.

Yet again, a romantic comedy that is underwhelming. At least, in this case we didn’t expect any different.

From love at first sight to till-death-do-us-part style, crazy love via the banter and misunderstandings that any relationship goes through – Ram-Leela has it all, in gorgeous frames, amongst lots of song and dance. That also makes it predictable, long and over-dramatized.

…it could have worked, had the execution not been so drab. This is despite the background score trying its best to keep you awake. Fortunately though, Satya 2 doesn’t suffer too much from the typical camera gimmickry we have come to associate with a Ram Gopal Verma product. But, these are only small mercies.

Aurangzeb is one of those little surprises that makes you look forward to the director’s next venture, even if you aren’t completely satisfied with what was served this time. Just for the thought put in the story, just for making an otherwise done-to-death theme interesting, Aurangzeb is worth the watch.

I don’t mind a serious film, I don’t mind socio-politics, I don’t mind satire, I certainly don’t mind quirky, dark humor. What I don’t get though is why a film can’t pick one or two of these themes and stick to it through and through – be there, build-up on it and end like the makers believed in what they were making, without any external pressures.

I am Kalam charmingly visualizes the life of a little boy who has to work to sustain himself and his family. Its simplicity is works as both an advantage and a disadvantage. The easy-going narrative is a pleasant watch but too-good-to-be-true plot is distracting.

To say that Pyaar Ka Punchnama relies heavily on the stereotyping women would be stating the obvious in an understated manner. But you are here; you are watching the film, might as well give in. And you see yourself in a land of puppies and bitches. Women are the most unreasonable, flaky, demanding, ruthlessly selfish kind of human beings.