For every one of us who’s come to expect original and sensible entertainment from Nagesh Kukunoor, his latest film, Bombay To Bangkok will prove to be a disappointment.

Cast: Nikhil Dwivedi, Amrita Rao, Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher, Pawan Malhotra, Javed Shaikh, Lillete Dubey, Saurabh Shukla, Mukesh Tiwari, Daya Shankar Pandey, D. Santosh; Director: E. Nivas ; Music: Pritam; Rating: **1/2 Meet young Anthony Gonsalves – no relation to Amar or Akbar. He is a struggler by the day and bartender by night. Anthony (Nikhil Dwivedi) has been brought up by dreaded gangster Sikander (Pawan Malhotra), but Sikander consciously keeps Anthony away from his world of crime.

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Vidya Balan, Pankaj Kapoor; Director: Rajkumar Santoshi; Music: Sukhwinder Singh, Vanraj Bhatia; Rating: ** When Sameer Khan (Devgan) refuses to testify in a murder he has witnessed, his conscience begins to prick him. He tries hard to assuage his guilt by paying off the victim's sister but realises that he has to come clean and expose the sons of two powerful men.

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Nana Patekar, Anil Kapoor, Feroz Khan, Paresh Rawal, Mallika Sherawat; Director: Director: Aneez Bazmee; Rating: ** Exit from the hall at the end of the movie was the better part of watching Welcome , director Anees Bazmee’s latest comedy film. The movie falls way short of expectations. Firstly, the film [...]

Cast: Aamir Khan, Tisca Chopra, Darsheel Safary, M. K. Raina; Director: Aamir Khan; Rating: *** Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi (Darsheel Safary) is all of eight and has repeated his third grade already. Papa Awasthi is one angry middle-aged man who wants Ishaan to be like his older brother Yohaan (Sachet Engineer) – a winner. Caught between [...]

Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Nana Patekar, Arjun Rampal, Aftab Shivdasani, Viveik Anand Oberoi, Arbaaz Khan, Rohit Roy, Bipasha Basu, Tanushree Datta, Mandira Bedi, Neha Dhupia, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Shergill, Sammir Dattani, Sudhanshu Pandey, Tusshar Kapoor; Director: Vishal Bharadwaj, Apoorva Lakhia, Hansal Mehta, Sudhir Mishra, Jasmeet Dhodi; Rating: * The most basic problem with Dus Kahaniyaan, the [...]

Cast: Shiney Ahuja, Soha Ali Khan, Rajat Kapoor, Sonya Jehan, Vinay Pathak, Saurabh Shukla, Sushmita Mukherjee, Dipannita Sharma; Director: Sudhir Mishra; Rating: **1/2 Sudhir Mishra’s ‘Khoya Khoya Chand’ recreates the Bombay film industry of the fifties and the sixties beautifully. Everything from the sets to the costumes to the overall feel is in place. Coupled [...]

A ‘comeback’ film always holds significance. Dilip Kumar [Kranti], Amitabh Bachchan [Mrityudatta], Vinod Khanna [Insaaf], Dimple Kapadia [Saagar], Mumtaz [Aandhiyaan] and Kajol [Fanna] are names you cannot erase from your memory since the celebrated actors returned to the big screen after a hiatus. With Aaja Nachle, Madhuri Dixit, who reigned supreme, is back to the [...]

 Cast: John Abraham, Bipasha Basu,Arshad Warsi,Boman Irani; Director: Vivek Agnihotri; Rating: **1/2 Think of sports-based films made in India and visuals of lagaan and chak de india flash across your mind. Will Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal fall in the same league as these immensely popular flicks, is one vital question that crosses your mind as [...]

 Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Shreyas Talpade, Kiron Kher, Malaika Arora, Javed Shaikh, Arjun Rampal, Zayed Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Dino Morea, Bindu, Satish Shah, Yuvika Chaudary, Shawar Ali, Asawari Joshi; Director: Farah Khan; Rating: **** A kitschy present-day, Farah Khan take-off on the ultra-popular ’70s Bollywood potboiler that, in her own words is a [...]