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...

*ing: Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Zhu Zhu, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Om Puri, Shah Rukh Khan Rated: 4/10 It’s unfortunate and sad. But   Tubelight   lives up to its title, not its star. It is a slow, un-gripping drama with no sense of direction whatsoever, or any forward movement. Much like a fused tube light, it works too hard to light up the proceedings, but fails to do so. So linear it is in dimension that despite the star power of Salman Khan, the aerial landscaping of the film by Kabir Khan, some hummable songs and a   Hindi-Chini bhai bhai   theme, fails to capture your interest, let alone your imagination. There’s no fun in the film, absolutely no Sallu  bhai  stuff for which the public throngs to the cinema hall with  sitees  and  taalis  with that first-day-first-show mania. Instead of being that  chavanni uchhaal  superstar, Salman is made to look like one of those glycerine characters in a  saas-bahu ...