Azhar is not an apologetic bio-pic. It doesn’t try too hard to portray the fallen hero as a  victim. The director lets the story tell itself out in the hope that the truth will emerge in the process.

It does. To a point.

Though this is a film about painful revelations Dear Dad is not a sad film. It doesn’t celebrate human frailty. But it tells us it’s okay to be what we are, who we are and never mind why we are what we are.

One Night Stand is easy on the eye and not heavy on the heart despite the dramatic potential of the plot.This an erotic emotional excursion that makes me curious  to see what the debutant direct would attempt next.Hopefully a companion film about a female stalker who won’t take   no for an answer.

It’s just not the male prerogative to be predator.

Here is a rare film that allows us a lucid glimpse into the anguished heart of  ​a ​soul that couldn’t fathom the depth of its own brilliance. Almost a century after Ramanujan’s death this film unravels the mystique of the unschooled maestro who didn’t know why numbers meant so much to him.

Though not unwatchable Baaghi lays way too much stress on optical thrills.Forget feeling for the lovers, you wait for them to stop singing dancing and fighting  long enough to give love a chance.This is a narrative so busy having sex it forgets to enjoy the orgasm.

This morally uplifting inspirational heartwarming fable is a must watch, if only to see how difficult it is to be simple.And how much we miss those simply told tales of life byHrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee.

The comic world of Santa Banta Pvt Ltd is suffused in an exasperating chaos. You want to be amused. You wait for punchlines. There is not one gag here that would evoke even a mild laughter in the audience. But if you appreciate some very accomplished comic actors trying to make sense of a plot that couldn’t have made sense even to those who wrote it, this is your film.

Once in while you tend to overlook the glaring aberrations in a story that is so well-intended that it makes you wonder:  why didn’t someone make this film before?

Director Maneesh Sharma whose garbled take on love sex and live-in relationships inShudh Desi Romance had my mind boggled and my head rattled , lends a lucid heft to the drama in Fan. Though the climax is not as strong as the rest  of the film we come away from Fan with far more happy thoughts than we did from Shah Rukh’s other recent films.

Don’t wait. Just go out this weekend with the kids and re-live one of the most cherished children’s stories told from an adult perspective and yet miraculously maintaining an artless innocence that makes this film entirely winsome experience. And so what if Priyanka doesn’t sing in the Hind version. The film is suffused in the music of the soul.