Not that one was expecting great shakes from a film called Heropanti. But, that the makers, with a 100% fresh starcast don’t even attempt to break any mould is disheartening. In fact, they try to milk the popularity of a 20-year old film. Just sad.

The performances are as perfunctory as they can get. To rub salt into the wound, you have Irrfan Khan doing a voiceover. The setting of the 70s doesn’t work at all. The songs, well has either, Yo Yo Honey Singh or Himesh Reshammiya as their singer. So, there’s no looking for respite there. The sliver lining is – it is a short film.

I must admit that Main Tera Hero has much more focus in its plot than an average David Dhawan film.

The performances are those that belong in a slapstick film. Varun Dhawan monkeys around, Nargis Fakhri adequately continues to annoy, and Anupam Kher makes a fool of himself yet again. Like I said earlier, Ileana D’Cruz, Saurabh Shukla and Arunoday Singh manage a laugh or two, but just about.

Sure, there is an attempt at trying something new. It feel flat on its face, but at least they tried. Oh well.

Ragini MMS 2 is like any other B-grade horror film or Horrex (Horror-Sex for the uninclined) as Ragini MMS 2 likes to call itself. Do not be surprised if I copy-paste this review for the next similarly done film in the genre.

With very little going for it in the music and other technical departments then, Bewakoofiyaan feels like listening to a friend’s woes about their relationship – with empathy and love; but you want them to kiss and patch up, already. So, that you can move on too.

The problem though is that they try to inject it with humor using an exaggerated dose of hyperbole – only to end up flat on its face. Worse yet, you have seen almost all the quippy one-liners in the trailers. Other than a couple of witticisms in the first 15-20 minutes, there is hardly any new material that makes you laugh later in the film.

Gunday is one of those films that make you wonder why it was made at all. The action is plain and pretty much boring. The performances are overtly stylish and overbearing. The dialogue delivery by one and all is too focussed on making an impact without having any support from the dialogue itself.

The writing is so predictable that even if you haven’t seen the trailer you can tell what’s going to happen next.

It has a chic, Hollywood rom-com feel to it, except that it is Indianized with songs, etc. – See more at: http://wogma.com/movie/one-two-review/#sthash.YZDK7xC9.dpuf

…typical mix of action, silly humor, romance, loud background score, and ill-placed mediocre songs. Though, “baaki sab first class hai” does have decent lyrics. Too little to hang on to for a film that last 2.5 hours.