This loud movie predictably offers kindergarten representations of Indian corruption, and even the execution is awful. Buildings that resemble Jenga towers collapse in a camera-trembling earthquake, while tired combat scenes show Kumar barely touching his opponents.

Don’t take your children to this film, lest they watch Sholay later and exclaim that Amjad Khan shamelessly apes the original Gabbar played by Akshay Kumar.

I’m usually a sucker for stories about frustrated artists. But this one is presented in a dated and garish manner that makes you wonder if the filmmakers think this is actually a groundbreaking concept.

Our filmmakers have milked the cross-border eternal romance angle dry. It’s hard to tell if it’s Indo-Pak tension that provides fodder for these done-to-death stories, or the stories that actually create tension between the nations.

…the digs become so obvious, and the intention to frustrate viewers so desperate, that the message of Indo-Pak brotherhood and procrastinating politicians is lost in an absurd haze of theatricality.

This is a film that attempts to make us comfortable with the viewing and experience of disability, by exposing us to its protagonist’s most monotonous and private moments. Charming title aside, Margarita, With A Straw-though a crushing experience deserves to be watched for her.

The painstaking strength of this film could also be misconstrued as its weakness; Court is perhaps so good a movie that it doesn’t look like one. It is unyielding, funny, mundane, occasionally boring and thought provoking, if only in hindsight. Just like life. Live it.

Mr. X is a tremendously unimaginative film about a wronged ATT Cop who uses his accidentally acquired invisibility to exact revenge on his colleagues. More than Emraan Hashmi’s hollow man Raghu, the script remains invisible with greater authenticity.

Though it combines my favourite cinematic devices—senior citizen, kids, road trip-I’m quite sure most kind-hearted adults would first dump the runaways at the nearest police station. But here, hitchhiking is eerily simple, and any stranger displaying concern comes across as a responsible pedophile. Performances largely involve walking and using different modes of transport.

With the showboating Broken Horses, he joins the growing herd of Indian cinema’s finest filmmakers who surprisingly find more merit in adapting and remaking old literary and film works. Perhaps it’s time to stop romanticizing the past, and create a more original legacy-original stories, new visions, enduring cinematic memories that can be frequented with admiration by future generations. Instead of recreating Parinda, perhaps it is time for someone to create a new Parinda.

Ek Paheli Leela is just an insincere, lavish and titillating compilation of every item song ever made.