This is a mixed bag of nuts, some crunchy, others tasty and also some peanuts that taste a little off. A director and producer listen to the narration of yet another police story. It's a buddy cop story, with baddies and politicians and an editor of the newspaper thrown in for conspiracy. What it lacks in 'conflict' is made up by the silliness played earnestly by the ensemble cast. It's not hi-comedy, but it's a fun watch.
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Bobby is a dubbing artist, suffering from childhood trauma and is obsessed with murders and has a violent streak. But she is quirky and has a weird outlook on life which is funny up to a point. Then she discovers a new obsession: her tenant, Keshav. But Keshav's wife dies in mysterious circumstances. Bobby thinks Keshav did it. The cops think she's crazy. The truth lies somewhere in between...
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Varun and Karan are two young men in love with two young women. The two lie to be with their girls. One marries by saying he doesn't have a family. The other says his brother will come back from America and then they can get married. The married lad's father shows up and the other lad's brother comes back from prison. The ensuing confusion is not chaotic enough and neither are the misunderstandings funny. Such a waste.
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Thakurganj is a violent place. A veritable smorgasbord of character actors who are individually good and often are all crammed together in a hotch-potch revenge and double cross drama where the motives are so blurred that you don't care. Jimmy Sheirgill again proves to be a decent anchor in this violent nonsense.
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A story about a free school for the poorest of the poor IIT aspirants run by a maverick mathematician ranked by Time and Newsweek as the best in Asia, should have been a hugely inspiring film. It starts out to be fabulous, introducing us to a bright mind and his yearning to become someone. The film crash lands and how! You hate everything about it, especially the brown face that Hrithik applies on his face to look like a small town lad.
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Meezaan and Sharmin Segal offer the same ole love story, a mish mash of every love story since Bollywood began making romances. The film is executed so poorly, you wonder why it is under the Bhansali banner. It's plain excruciating to watch predictable romance movie tropes go on and on for 136 minutes.
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Justice Tyagi retires from Ranchi High Court and proceeds to take the law into his own hands to punish the men who went free because their crimes weren't proven. This is no whodunit, not even why-he-dun-it. It's a straightforward story laughably told. The usually reliable character actors are made to ham so much they seem to be competing for the Razzies.
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An IPS officer from a privileged background is sent off to what is 'the wild wild West' part of rural India. Everything on the surface seems okay but underneath it all is a simmering cauldron of caste and crime. The film tackles the tensions well, has shades of 'Mulk' (made by the same filmmaker) but the predictability of a cop's dilemma - to go by the rule book or instinct - remains the same.
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A shot by shot remake in Hindi of the Telugu hit film Arjun Reddy, this film stays true to the tale of an obsessed lover. Shahid Kapoor and Kiara Advani are lovers in medical school but when she's forced to marry someone else, the brilliant doctor goes into a downwards spiral of alcohol and drugs. The misogyny is very difficult to swallow for 174 minutes. But the acting and the relationships between the characters make this film a decent watch.
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Taapsee Pannu is a video game designer/player who is afraid of the dark with suicidal tendencies. Her home is invaded by a serial killer. With both her legs fractured, can she face him or is it game over? Unfortunately, the premise is so lame and the killer is not scary at all, so the film falls flat on its face.
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Bharat is a good guy, and though he promises that his life has been more colorful than the salt in his beard, the film does not live up to that promise. In fact it is so boring, you wonder if 'bhai' has forgotten his fans come to watch 'action' not wimpy comedy. We live through his many jobs and his devotion to dad. It's two and a half hours of being average. Fans want more.
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A wafer thin, predictable champions versus the underdogs plot, with actors that look like they're posing for 146 minutes except for five awesome minutes. How and why the filmmakers imagine that Tiger Shroff's almost 30 year old abs can pass off as 18 is a mystery. And Kabaddi is just weird to watch for that long...
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