Telling a convoluted saga of ambition, greed and friendship, Meeruthiya Gangsters fails to keep a grip on its central plot. The angles are bang on, but Zeishan fails to add gravity to his story that could have kept the audience hooked and involved with the story of his otherwise identifiable characters. Much of our disappointment stems from the fact that this comes from the same writer who penned Gangs of Wasseypur.

Watch Phantom just for the character actors if you have to. All of them — Sohaila Kapur, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub and Sabyasachi Chakraborty — deliver power-packed performances, as if to compensate for the lead pair’s lack of acting skills.

It’s not that the film is without jarring points. Most of the character artists goof up with the accent while mouthing the dialogues in the dialect spoken in the region. In fact, except Siddiqui, Dhulia, Apte and Pankaj Tripathi, everyone seems to have put on a fake and forced ‘Bihari’ accent. The very Bollywood-ised romance between Siddiqui and Apte seems out of place as well. At best, this should have been part of dream sequences. Given the realism of the story, the flying sarees and Apte roaming around without blouses do not quite fit into the cultural milieu.

It’s a story we’ve heard of so many times in the past: An ageing freedom fighter running from pillar to post, waging his own battle against bureaucratic red tape, trying to prove that he participated in the freedom struggle. With actors like Vinay Pathak, Konkona Sen and Ranvir Shorey in the line-up, Anant Mahadevan’s Gour Hari Dastaan could well have been Mahesh Bhatt’s Saraansh. Sadly, it’s too slow and the execution too boring. Nonetheless, the film definitely belongs to the league.

Masaan is a hard-hitting narrative set against the powerful backdrop that will stay with you long after you’ve left the theatres. It is and beautiful cinematic experience you don’t want to miss.

Not a single thing in Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho makes it worth a watch. Skip this and save yourself from this eminently avoidable overdose of misogyny and torture.

You should watch ABCD 2 irrespective of whether you are a dancer or not, because the performances more than compensate for the forced emotions, poorly-written dialogues and the badly-woven storyline.

Watch Tanu Weds Manu Returns if you love Bollywood. watch it if you follow Bollywood. and if you look down upon Bollywood, watch the movie to see how entertaining the industry can be. For people outside north India, the film is an authentic portrayal of middle-class small town India. And it is funny as hell! We’d say this is a must watch.

In a rare reminder of Hrishikesh Mukherjee films, Piku is does not feel like a movie; it might as well have been a video recording of any family with an ageing parent and a single child taking care of him/her.

Should you go watch this film even if you don’t know of any differently-abled person in your life? Yes, of course, mainly because this film reminds us that as a society we shy away from way too many things – be it desires of our differently-abled kids or the sexual orientations.