Meenakshi Rao's Bollywood and Hollywood movie reviews

CAST:  Vladimir Mashkov, Danila Kozlovsky, Agne Grudyte, Katerina Shpitsa RATED : 6/10 For an edgy drama around an aerial thriller and a relief operation from a giant volcanic eruption, this one would have passed with flying colours had the languid half hour been take care of in the beginning. The introduction to the movie is, in fact, so laidback that you think you may have come in for an irrelevant romance between pilots one of them being a trainee “with wings”. But once the formalities are over, the film and its tight script takes off in a jiffy and keeps you airborne with excitement for the rest of the movie. After deciding to land on a dangerous airstrip to save people in the middle of an erupting volcano, the crew battles survival in impossible situations with the airstrip melting away, parket airplanes exploding due to the liquid heat, people burning up with the buildings, the runway being on fire and a whole lot being marooned on another mountain from where the cr...

No Amir Khan this year, SRK strutting the screen more in anger than romance, Salman turning Tubelight before roaring as a Tiger, Hrithik playing a blind avenging angel and Saif doing his own thing with Sobhita Dhulipala, not once but twice. Of course, there is Akshay Kumar making quiet in-roads as usual with no less than five mounts this year, kicking off with a sequel, but for me, the high point will be April when we will all finally come to know why, oh why, Kattappa killed Bahubali, says  MEENAKSHI RAO You would have thought 2017 would be a laughter riot (10 of them, including  Hera Pheri 3 ) or a romantic year (no less than 17 love stories listed), not to forget the cut-throat line-up (as many as 10) of intensely action-oriented films like Kaabil  and Raees  opening the entertainment doors for you this year with a big clash in January itself. But it’s all a mixed bag of big films, big production houses, debuts, new cinema and known jodis visiting the screen. ...