Meenakshi Rao's Bollywood and Hollywood movie reviews

Casting : Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Sajjad Delfrooz, Paresh Rawal, Sudeep, Angad Bedi, Kumud Mishra, Girish Karnad, Anjalie Gupta, Neha Hinge, Ivan Rodrigues, Nawab Shah Rated : 7/10 Sallu Bhai is back and his fans are loving it! As expected, he is on a mission to achieve the impossible, and with what consummate ease! Really bhai, it’s much too much! Salman Khan starts off with outwitting a pack of blood hungry wolves in the snow-ridden Austrian Alps – just throwing them away with his bare hands while on his skiers. He then goes flying into the Syrian crisis where a maniacal Islamic leader is on a killing, subjugating, raping, beheading, human-bombing spree. Sallu Bhai does the impossible here too — he makes none less than Pakistan’s top ISI agent lehraao the Bharat ka jhanda. And, if that was not enough, makes both the ISI and RAW team up for an incredible mission to save the 25 Indian and 15 Pakistani nurses taken hostage by the stone-faced, Oxonian Islamic terrori...

Cast:  Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Sayani Gupta Rated : 8/10 It took three-and-a-half years in the making, tided over the real life lovers’ crisis of its lead pair, overhauled its music after the entire score had been charted, which by the way is all of 35 songs, changed the storyline, awaited its director to come into the mood and, phew, it finally released this weekend. But  Jagga Jasoos  has been worth the wait, mainly because of Ranbir Kapoor’s impeccably riveting acting but in no small measure because of the novelty of the idea shaped and decorated to stunning results by director-writer Anurag Basu. Basu, by the way, has come a long way from his House of Bhatt , Murder, Metro  and  Gangste r days. He has since given us a differently-enabled blockbuster like Barfi and now comes with another novelty in  Jagga Jasoos . Never has Bollywood attempted a genre that defies catagorisation with such impunity — a spy, adventure, fantasy, romantic, ...