Nothing that we see in Dirty Politics justifies the presence of these talented actors.

A very poorly executed film which makes you feel sorry for the body-politic of the nation. Surely things are not so bad in politics?

…may lack the subtle cynicism and insinuated acrimony of Shimit Amin’s original. It is nonetheless a gripping gaatha dunked in gore and violence about the blurred line between the law and lawlessness.

How long can you watch three good-looking people doing the dumbest of things in the misguided hope that they would scare you with their propensity to think with their private parts in public places.

After a while you just wish they would keep it in their pants.

Sadly the humour is decidedly more dead in Crazy Kukkad Family than the patriarch who just refuses to die. The writing could have done with less lungs and more brains.

This is one crazy family we don’t want to run into .

Bipasha Basu tries hard to infuse life in the inert plot. She fails,though we can’t blame her.Even the stunning Kerala locales look listless when weighed against the cartoonish terror and lust of a pair which knows they are getting into the wrong train.

Forget horror. This is a comedy.

I have to admit Kill/Dil is a smaller disaster than Gunday.Ranveer who played one of the two buddies in the earlier films as well, is far more entertaining here. He’s still way over the top.But here he is hammy in a pleasant way. Trouble starts and the killings for him end, when Ranveer’s character Dev falls in love with the neighbourhood femme fatale, a weirdly freelancing heiress played by the forciblyglammed-up Parineeti Chopra, who seems to have her hands in every single pie that she can lay her manicured fingers on.

Bang Bang gets the boredom quotient bang-on. The rest is all noise and fury about a diamond, Kohinoor no less, stolen from a British museum. The way the thief carries the precious ‘diamond’(which looks like a paperweight) around in his pocket goes to show how little a certain group of filmmakers respect the audiences’ intellect.

I came away with the baap-beti relationship rather than the love story. As for food, I craved for more.

Burp re burp.

A stellar cast only adds to this accomplished film’s sense of creative propriety.

Mardaani is a film that makes all the correct noises about child trafficking. And by “correct noises” I do mean the soundtrack which is among the most evocative provocative and satisfying in recent times.

Here is a film that is not apologetic about its obsession with aesthetics. If in cooking presentation is paramount then so be it in movie-making too.

This film celebrates the art of looking good.