VICTORY traverses a different route altogether: This one revolves around a cricketer, talks of the highs and lows in his life, how greed, arrogance and lust almost ruin his career.

If you thought mindlessness had seen extremes, you have to see Chandni Chowk To China to understand what levels that can go to. For anything else you don't really need to disturb yourself and your bank balance for this so-called Indian international venture.

The 100 minute film takes a dig at the wannabes with American dreams, the yearning for green cards, H1-B visas, truckloads of greenbacks.

Zoya Akhtar's debut film "Luck By Chance", which has tunes by the remarkable trio of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, reinforces one's faith in good music. The composers also prove that Bollywood musicians aren't shy of experimenting.

Nikhil Advani didn't seem to want to leave any stone unturned to make 'Chandni Chowk To China' a blockbuster. So, he roped in a host of composers - Kailash Kher, Naresh, Paresh, Bohemia, Shanker-Ehsaan-Loy and Bappi Lahiri to churn out lilting music for his film.

"Raaz - The Mystery Continues" is a film by Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt and the music of their movies is always a hit, though they don't experiment too much. But the compositions of this film are different from other productions of the Bhatt camp.

Ghajini is an out and out revenge saga. But the director has tried to amalgamate the riveting revenge story with a soft romance between the two protagonists, Sanjay and Kalpana, played by Aamir Khan and Asin.

This has been an eventful year for music maestro A.R. Rahman with an endless list of his albums being released and most of them hitting bull's eye. "Ghajini" is no exception.

All in all, the film has the capacity to do very well in the North and the overseas but elsewhere the film won't be anywhere near Adi's earlier two works in terms of business.

"Dil Kabaddi" is about two young urban couples whose conjugal lives have gone a bit awry and they begin to look out to have some flings on the side to keep the flame burning.