Sonakshi moves, feels and looks the part that’s all but empty heft in a script so extraordinarily dated and bereft of punch…

If Happy Bhag Jayegi succeeds in delivering a few laughs, it’s entirely to the credit of the actors…It’s silly but this is the most humour you can expect.

Once the flaky fizz vaporises into nonsense and noise, a sense of tedium begins to steep in. Even so, at its 124 minutes running time, Dishoom doesn’t hobble for too long to hurt one’s butt or brain.

The Rocky trace (the commercial scene tips its hat at Rocky II) is unmistakable and Zafar does try to emulate Balboa’s motto of ‘not about hard you hit but how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.’ But at almost three hours running time, no thanks to a couple of completely needless songs, a spirited but spent Sultan slogs its way to knockout.

Independence Day: Resurgence only reiterates one thing. Be it alien, superhero, monsters or natural calamity, the blockbuster factory acts on the same pig-headed formula of mindless explosion, collapsing buildings, vast amounts of rubble and everything going up in a giant ball of smoke. 

Housefull 3’s second most remarkable piece of acting comes from an army of CGI ants. To divulge more would be such a spoiler so I’ll refrain.

Though elegant composed and filled with warm possibilities, Dear Dad stays awfully impersonal communicating only from a distance to tread a tediously linear path. Its all-important disclosure isn’t hard to guess what with Bhramar giving away ample signs along the way.   

Traffic doesn’t address its ethics or anything profound. It doesn’t aspire to be anything beyond a bumpy ride to half-hearted glory. And in that it is entirely successful.

He’s got the goods of a solid action hero but it’s time to step out of the show reel space and shine under an actual script and a skilled hand who can bring out the Tiger buried under Jackie’s son and Hrithik’s fan. 

The Blueberry Hunt is typically art-house in its aesthetic with a dash of Nagaland mysticism thrown in for effect…