Meenakshi Rao's Bollywood and Hollywood movie reviews

Cast:  Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra, Alexandra Daddario, David Hasselhoff, Cody Martin Rated : 4/10 Wasn’t  Baywatch  always about certain portions of the woman anatomy than about any kind of crime and chase thrillers? That’s the way it should have remained because more the world matures, more it moves back into serenading, well, woman anatomy on the big screen, especially when it is localed around a beach, sea and some Sunday fun in the summers. The latest edition of  Baywatch , hijacked from the now aged David Hasselhoff by none other than muscle rippling Rock, is a muddle much like the beach and sea conditions during monsoons. It does not show enough of anything, not even skin as a true blood  Baywatch  franchise should have, and gets rather too complicated with fallen heroes, drugs, corruption and jurisdiction issues that are too commonplace for a  Baywatch  title to get stuck into. Come to think of it, the film i...

Starring:  Anil Kapoor, Shefali Shah, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Farhan Akhtar, Rahul Bose, Zarina Wahab Rated:  6/10 Zoya Akhtar is fast becoming the travel specialist of Bollywood — at least on screen — someone like Yash Chopra though in a modern, somewhat snappish romantic mould. Since the days of Zindagi  Na Milegi Dobara , she has seasoned her art of making her movies travel the world and Dil Dhadakne Do is cast on the ethereal waters of Mediterranean Greece. Like the Chopras, this one too is picture perfect, a visual treat and an enhanced show of chic not just in relationships but in clothes, personality propulsion and in treating the characters and their stories in the rarified atmosphere of envied richness. In  Zindagi...  that worked wonders — the road trip through Spain, the untapped locales, the modernisms in the characters, the tomatino festival, the bullfights, the colour, the wine and the romance of Spain. In  Di...