A slightly more mature Ayan as storyteller, and technically his craft is a few notches higher too. Yet just like Bunny, Ayan’s cinematic idiom still seems trapped in a happy-go-lucky teenage universe.

The film is trademarked by Nair’s love for opulent frames. The ethnic Sufi score in the background adds to the rich tones on screen. Indeed Mira Nair always manages a new twist when it comes to presenting eastern exotica for the West.

Amitabh Bachchan, in a one-scene cameo as Meyer Wolfsheim tells the world what we always knew: Big B is an actor who needs just that one scene.

Go Goa Gone is your film if you like your humour with a dash of black. The sexy beaches of Goa will perhaps never be the same again on the Bollywood screen.

If Fast & Furious 6 clicks, it is because the film manages to make you believe the first five of the series never existed. This sequel is driven by a passion to regale normally spotted in first films of any series.

Bombay Talkies lets us celebrate ourselves as viewers. It leaves a warm afterglow reminding us that cinema in India flourished thanks to its audience.

In essence, the sequel follows the basic pattern of the first film – only the twists this time are more imaginative, the story more complex and thrills smarter.

We are looking at New Bollywood, evolving exactly as it should. Stirringly topical, solid in the comment it leaves, and yet never losing focus on the classic entertainment formula that has forever driven our commercial cinema. What’s more, it sets the stage for three new exciting talents in the bargain too.

In his new film, Pandey is out tormenting the high and mighty who thrive on black money. A nation with growing doubts over its judicial system would lap this up, and Pandey’s Special 26 plays to the galleries while forwarding what he feels should be the right treatment for such enemies of the state.

But the film crumbles in the climax, giving you an end that is too filmy for satisfaction. The end is one that bars Vishal’s latest from becoming an exceptional effort. For everything else it is worth, this is the first real whopper coming out of Bollywood this year. Go for it.