Film Review

Starring <strong>Anil Kapoor, John Abraham, Tusshar Kapoor,Kangna Ranaut, Sonu Sood, Manoj Bajpai, Ronit Roy</strong> Directed by <strong>Sanjay Gupta</strong> Rating: <strong>*** ?</strong> <em>Babli badmash hai</em>, sings Priyanka Chopra in one of the 3 utterly wasted item numbers in this film about blazing guns, flaring nostrils, sanguinary revenge and bleak atonement. Babli is not the only one who’s a <em>badmaash</em> here. The characters are all hardened players of the underworld from the 1970s.They all mean business in the business of being mean.

<strong>Starring :Rani Mukherjee, Randeep Hooda, Saleem Saqib, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Naman Jain,Khushi Dubey, Vineet Kumar Singh, Sudhir Pandey and above all, Amitabh Bachchan</strong> <strong>Directors: Karan Johar,Dibakar Bannerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap</strong> <strong>Rating: *****</strong>

Starring <strong>Emraam Hashmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Huma Qureshi, Kalki Koechlin</strong> Directed by <strong>Kannan Iyer</strong> Rating: <strong>* * * *</strong> Do you believe in the supernatural? Even if you don’t this fabulously effective take on the wages of renewable evil would prompt you to look nervously over your shoulders the next time you pass through dark shadowy corridor.

Starring <strong>Vidyut Jamwal, Pooja Chopra, Jaideep Ahlawat</strong> Directed by <strong>Dilip Ghosh</strong> Rating: <strong>*** ? (3 and a half stars) </strong> We’ve never seen anything like this before...Or have we??? Not since Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme and, ahem, Akshay Kumar have we witnessed action of such riveting authenticity and intensity.

Starring <strong>Farooq Shaikh, Deepti Naval, Ravi Baswani, Rakesh Bedi</strong> Directed by <strong>Sai Paranjpye</strong> Rating: <strong>****</strong>

Starring: <strong>Rishi Kapoor, Lilette Dubey, Ali Zafar, Siddharth, Divyendu Sharma, Tapsee Pannu, Anupam Kher</strong> Directed by <strong>David Dhawan</strong> Rating: <strong>*** ? </strong> “<em>Dum hai, Boss</em>!” the perky young Miss Congeniality in David Dhawan’s <em>Chashme Baddoor</em> (CB), a far cry from the <em>shastriya-sangeet</em> trainee Tutti-fruti-eating Deepti Naval in Sai Paranjpye’s film, exclaims whenever she is impressed by her lover-boy’s dialogue-<em>baazi</em>.