Meenakshi Rao's Bollywood and Hollywood movie reviews

*ing : Diljit Dosanjh, Sonakshi Sinha, Karan Johar, Riteish Deshmukh, Lara Dutta, Boman Irani, Rana Daggubati, Sushant Singh Rajput, Aditya Roy Kapur Rated : 1/10 The IIFA could not have a more lame, stupid and kitschy ambassador than this completely nonsensical, pompous movie Welcome to New York. It not only maligns the name of this prestigious awards ceremony but also goes a long way in questioning the mental efficacy of an actor of some repute like Sonakshi Sinha to have accepted such a crazy project even in the silly season of her career. Daljit Dosanjh, too, has by now gathered a modicum of momentum for his acting ambitions in Bollywood so doing this film comes across as a blind date he took up in a fit of insanity. The film, a spoof on Bollywood and its mores, does try to showcase the known eccentricities of known biggies like Karan Johar in and as Karan Johar, the Karan-Arjun OTT recall and a vaguely woven in Ek Villain tale that has been inserted at the IIFA presentat...

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...