I’m going with one-and-a-half out of five for director Roshan Abbas’ ‘Always Kabhi Kabhi’. Watching this film is like attending a concert put up by ten-year-olds. It’s amateurish, and tedious to sit through, and the only thing you can appreciate in the end is the earnestness behind the effort.

The original film, although entirely plagiarized, had a charming innocence to complement its outrageous humor. This one is dead dull, and a total waste of two precious hours.

To describe this film as paisa vasool or time pass is to confess that you really don’t have a life. Because apart from two energetically filmed songs – ‘Character dheela hai’ and ‘Dhinka chika’ – this film offers little by way of entertainment. Salman Khan fans, I assure you that reruns of his ‘Dus Ka Dum’ episodes on Youtube are more likely to make you smile than this agonisingly boring film that wastes the charm of its immensely charismatic star.

It’s tense and eerily treated; and it almost works.

The movie benefits from an inspired performance by Raj Kumar Yadav as the short-fused, profanity-spouting cad who’s desperate to exploit his shy but eager-to-please girlfriend. Borrowing visual references generously from previous hits like ‘Paranormal Activity’, ‘The Blair Witch Project’ and so many Ramgopal Varma offerings, ‘Ragini MMS’ delivers very little in terms of novelty. Still, in constructing a story around sex and scares, the makers of this film adopt Hollywood’s foolproof B-movie formula and come up with a watchable but ultimately over-long adult movie.

For the most part Bhatt exploits the 3D to make things jump out at you, and while it’s not as much as fun as the last ‘Final Destination’ movie, there are moments that will make you leap in your seat.

Save for a few moments of inspired lunacy provided by Vinay Pathak, this is one bumpy ride you don’t need to take. I’m going with two out of five for director Shashant Shah’s ‘Chalo Dilli’. After some 36 hours on Rajasthan’s dusty roads, Lara Dutta doesn’t have one hair out of place or even a slight lipstick smudge. This is that kind of movie!

Director Satyajit Bhatkal draws out an earnest performance from Darsheel Safary, but there is little in this film that children in the audience are likely to embrace. Missing any fun or visual inventiveness even, ‘Zokkomon’ is a dull film that’s difficult to endure.

An average drugs-drama to a smart and entertaining action thriller. It’s got its moments, but they’re few and far between.

If ‘Teen Thay Bhai’ was merely slapstick, you’d settle into it after a while. But the film never finds its tone. Apart from a few inspired moments of lunacy, this movie is schizophrenic to say the least, going from spoofy to bizarre to sentimental, and yet remaining consistently dull throughout.