It’s a chapter in Mumbai’s history that we’ll never forget, so a movie on the attacks should have left you more than just comfortably numb.

It’s not a film you’ll remember years from now, but you won’t be moaning and groaning through it either. The film has no intellectual pretentions; its only ambition is to offer a good time. In that, it mostly succeeds.

It’s a good cure for insomnia. Queue up for a ticket, those of you having trouble sleeping.

This is a half watchable film despite all that melodrama flying around. Sadly, if it had kept its head, this thriller could have gone places.

I’m going with two out of five for director Aditya Datt’s Table No 21. Even dependable actors like Paresh Rawal and Rajeev Khandelwal sleepwalk through their roles.

What this film needed was personality and character; what it’s left with is sameness. But that’s probably enough for Salman Khan fans.

I’m going with a generous two out of five for ‘Khiladi 786’. Akshay Kumar fans may not complain. The rest might prefer the company of an aspirin.

A remake of the Telugu hit Maryaada Ramanna directed by SS Rajamouli, who himself whacked the premise from a 1920s Buster Keaton hit, Son of Sardaar is only sporadically entertaining, and peddles the same tired stereotypes of Punjab and Sikhs. A cameo by Salman Khan, sadly, doesn’t make up for the film’s many flaws.

Bhoot Returns is no Paranormal Activity, although it does borrow at least three key moments from that popular horror franchise. Its not entirely a waste of time either, because Varma does deliver a few good scares. Im going with two out of five for Bhoot Returns. Its the kind of film that the phrase time-pass entertainment was invented to describe.

Aiyyaa, with its bright visual palette, its strong female perspective, and its intentionally peculiar humor, is evocative of Almodovar’s quirky cinema, but the plot here is wafer thin, and while some elements work, it never all comes together as a satisfying whole.It certainly doesn’t help that the film unfolds over two hours and thirty minutes…an excruciatingly long running time for what’s essentially a slim story of a one-sided crush. In the end — the impressive camerawork and Amit Trivedi’s winning tunes aside — Aiyyaa is at best an original and promising experiment let down by its many indulgences. I’m going with two-and-a-half out of five for director Sachin Kundalkar’s Aiyyaa; an unusual film that could’ve been so much more.