Hate Story 2 is marketed as an erotic thriller, and scores pretty low on both the erotic and thriller counts. It’s a revenge drama, straight and simple, with some elements of erotica and thrills folded in. The film is a drag for the most part, but it’s still better than some of the “100 crore” films thrown in the audience’s face in the name of entertainment.

This is a film that’s very much like the cold coffee our protagonists enjoy. Enjoyable, cool and good while it lasts. Slurp on!

It’s a delectable biryani (you’ll understand the reference better if you watch the film) masterfully prepared, and full of subtle flavours and heart. Don’t miss!

Ek Villain, or a manual on different ways of killing women, is a gory film that‘s hesitant to acknowledge its dark layers. On the surface, it’s mostly an optimistic movie with a preachy ‘Darkness can be destroyed only by light’ message.

Watch if it a film that’s essentially unoriginal, with plasticky emotions, and unnecessary gore fills up your soul. The only redeeming aspect is Riteish Deshmukh’s performance, but that would mean enduring the rest of the film as well!

Watch it if you can tolerate Saif (dressed as a waitress, and looking eerily like a revolting version of Soha Ali Khan) getting sexy with Riteish, and Riteish (in a skirt) seducing Saif’s clone. And if Ram Kapoor lusting after his own clone (in drag), and trying to rape “her” is your idea of fun, who am I to judge. Just don’t say you hadn’t been warned!

With a lame story, uneven performances, offensive dialogue, and storytelling that barely holds your attention, this one is best avoided!

The film starts as an arresting concept, but that sadly hasn’t been realized to its potential.

… entertains in its narrative playfulness — another entry in the burgeoning fad of puzzle-making sci-fi, as seen in Inception and Looper. Few filmmakers have Liman’s knack for smart plotting; his much earlier Go inventively connected three intertwined stories.

Do not miss this National Award-winning tragicomedy. Such cinematic gems, both entertaining and poignant, come by rarely!

Holiday is a remake of Murugadoss’s 2012 Tamil hit Thuppakki, which I hear was fairly watchable. What happened then? Did Murugadoss try to Bollywoodise the perfectly fine story? Reminds one of that phrase—“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’