Meenakshi Rao's Bollywood and Hollywood movie reviews

Cast  : Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sayani Gupta, Evelyn Sharma, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Aru Krishansh Verma, Paras Arora Rated : 7/10 Jab Harry Met Sejal,  he had become a veteran of romance — been there, done that in much peppier love stories down the years since  Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge  made him the king of romance in 1995. So, somewhat aged for the emotion, in love with a bubbly young girl, teaching her the mores of attraction in a veteran kind of way and yet getting swayed by her impromptu, completely untailored attraction will have the critics ready with their stones. And yes, there is also this matter of a lot of the annoying facial hair that Shah Rukh Kahn (SRK) has been sporting to look his age which is 50 plus I am told? But alongside come a host of vintage mannerisms which have SRK written all over them — vintage SRK, not over the top SRK mind you — and that’s what Harry and this movie by gifted director Imtiaz Ali is all about. Yes, y...

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, ...