Meenakshi Rao's Bollywood and Hollywood movie reviews

Cast:  Ajay Devgn, Ileana D'Cruz, Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta, Vidyut Jammwal, Sanjay Mishra, Sharad Kelkar, Sunny Leone Rated:  4/10 A thriller without thrill is a killer without business.  Baadshaho  comes in this “insipid drama” category despite being star-botoxed with Ajay Devgn trying to make his presence felt with brooding eyes and deadpan dialogues. Ileana D’ Cruz as the scheming Maharani Geetanjali being hounded into an emergency-crowded jail amid the sand-dunes of interior Rajasthan tries hard to create moments in the film but goes down fighting the inanity alongside Devgn and his  yaar dost  like the much tattooed Emraan Hashmi and the always arresting Sanjay Mishra. The presence of a Sanjay Gandhi like figure named “Sanjeev” heckling the maharani and using the Army to settle personal scores makes the film even more frivolous despite its high production qualities. Vidyut Jammwal as the Army commando is a tuxedo washout, much like the...

Cast:  Anil Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Ileana D'Cruz, Athiya Shetty, Neha Sharma Rate :  8/10 It’s a rollicking, largely Punjabi, comedy which comes clean on all counts. There are the peg-sheg one-liners that you expect from a gathering of multi-hued sardars, and there are some witty ones too, that you don’t. But director Anees Bazmee gives you a non-stop roller-coaster of a London-to-Chandigarh  achaari  family entertainer, packed with Punjab  di mitti de  Punjab  de  well-meaning puttars having a rollicking wedding feud between a  praa  and a good old bebbey in a hilarious comedy of errors. Mubarakan is one of those few slapstick comedies that do not falter till the very end despite being spread over a more than two-hour span. Most laughter films coming out of the Bollywood stock fail the challenge and drizzle out with a tedious over-the-top mostly un-comic episodic existence. Bazmee has made his reputation with nonsensical...