Meenakshi Rao's Bollywood and Hollywood movie reviews

Cast : Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi, Rhea Chakraborty, Bhuvan Arora, Sahil Vaid, Vikram Thapa Rated : 2/10 Bank Chor  is like that upside down house showcased in Kuala Lumpur. Only, while the Malaysian property is a crowd puller, Ritesh Deshmukh starrer is a complete put-off. With such movies, you know the humour will be of a particular variety, the retarded forced slapstick kind but in Bank Chor, even that is forced on you from within the constrictive four-walls of a bank. It takes an era almost for the film to actually take off and in all that wasted time it scripts a treatise of blunders, bumbling aimlessly from one locker to other. By the time the director — and the plot — returns from its insane but inane trip, it is much too late indulge in “ der aye durust aye ” forgiveness by a totally cheated audience. Yes, amid all the troll-worthy inaction, there are sparks of Mumbai and Delhi humour capsules through the three main protagonists. While the brash ambien...

Cast:  Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Rhea Chakraborty Rated:  3/10 Half Girlfriend  is as pathetic as the face of Bill Gates shown in the film. Not just pathetic, this Arjun Kapoor-Shraddha Kapoor starrer, which came with a lot of weight, and we are not talking about Arjun’s body mass here, is a confused, slow, anti-romance. A Bihari boy in love with a rich Delhi girl who has domestic violence issues at home was doomed from the very start, only director Mohit Suri failed to see it. Yes, he does create drama but gets carried away with it, to disastrous fallouts. Based on celeb writer Chetan Bhagat’s novel of the same name, the film desperately looks for a way out of the existential mess it creates pretty early into the sequence. And what was it with Shraddha? She wears crazy clothes, plays bad basketball, walks like a zombie in the rain and carries a guitar on her slight back without playing it much. She also has dreams, that of being a solo singer in a New ...