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 [...]

 Cast: Salman Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee, Zohra Sehgal, Begum Para, Achla Sachdev; Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali; Rating: ** First off, using the ever-fantastic words of Pete Townshend entirely out of context, The Kids Are Alright. No, Ranbir and Sonam Kapoor — megahyped bachchas sharing a surname but entirely different Bollywood legacies — [...]

Cast: John Abraham, Ayesha Takia, Paresh Rawal, Ranvir Shorey Director: Anurag Kashyap ; Rating: **1/2 With a rather unusual name, the story is more unusual and is a thriller about a chain smoker (John Abraham). After two highly controversial films, albeit good films, ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Paanch’, Director Anurag Kashyap is back with his next [...]

Who can resist a good love story, and this week’s new release Jab We Met is exactly that – a warm, fuzzy, and for the most part, original love story.

 Cast: Rani Mukherjee, Konkana Sen Sharma, Jaya Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Kunal Kapoor, Anupam Kher; Director: Pradeep Sarkar; Rating: ** So, it is a Yash Raj movie. You have learnt to forgive them for the extra tinge of orange and the sharp sounds, the mandatory songs and the unnecessary melodrama. But, if throughout the movie, the [...]

 Cast: Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Shiney Ahuja, Amisha Patel; Director: Priyadarshan; Rating: ** Gawk, it must be the world’s largest lock. Quickly, a locksmith bakes a nice, thin, long key. And presto, the door opens up to reveal a chamber of ghungroos, paan daans, and very awful paintings of a king fatter than Adnan Sami [...]

Cast: Jimmy Shergill, Kim Sharma, Kabir Sadanand, Farid Amiri, Ahmed Khan, Sri Vallabh Vyas, Vinod Nagpal; Director: Dilip Sood If you thought the title Chhodon Na Yaar would dissuade cinegoers from seeing this Jimmy Sheirgill and Kim Sharma starrer, think again, for the director of the film Dilip Sood explains the relevance of the title. [...]

Cast: Nisha Kothari, Gautam Gupta, Rajpal Yadav, Kay Kay Menon; Director: Manish Srivastav; Rating: * When was the last time you saw a film so bad, so bad, that you enjoyed it thoroughly? This week’s new release Go, is exactly that kind of movie. Newcomer Gautam Gupta and Nisha Kothari play two young lovers who [...]