When it comes to wrestling, or education, or religion, Aamir Khan knows best. After watching “Dangal”, it is difficult to argue with that.

…for a film that builds up wonderfully, “Kahaani 2 – Durga Rani Singh” fails to finish off in style.

The highlight of the film is Alia Bhatt, who pulls off her second brilliant performance of the year after “Udta Punjab”. The focus is entirely on her and she doesn’t shy away, facing even tough scenes with a natural confidence and maturity that belies her age. “Dear Zindagi” might not be a love letter to life it was intended to be, but Bhatt and Khan make this one worth watching.

Packed with action shorn of cliched romance and full of breathless chase sequences though the cobbled streets of Budapest in Hungary, “Force 2” could have passed the action film test with flying colours if not for that pesky thing called storyline.

“Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” has neither gravitas nor the charm to be worth remembering.

Like the snow-covered mountains that form a backdrop to much of “Shivaay”, the film may have been meant to inspire awe, but the end result leaves you stone cold.

Bajpayee and the rest of the cast plough on, regardless of the meaninglessness of the script. The only person you feel for is Kay Kay Menon, the police officer who is always late to the chase and is left bewildered and empty-handed in the end. That’s how the audience is likely to feel too at the end of “Saat Uchakkey”.

The trimmings in this love story like the music and choreography are the best bits but Mehra and Gulzar fail to give us a sense of the real conflicts in the film – the reason for Sahiban’s actions and the choice one has to sometimes make between lover and family.

For a film that starts off so well, “M S Dhoni: The Untold Story” is unable to achieve what its subject has made an art out of – finishing off in style.

An incoherent script magnifies this problem, and pulls “Banjo” down into a quagmire from which even Deshmukh, for all his screen presence, cannot rescue it.