When in Rome

A nice rom com for the Sunday! Its kinda fanciful yet the romance and the comedy is in nice dosage to not make it a bore. Plus, there is Rome and Spanish accent! The dialog and screenplay is good, acting is fresh, NY and Central Park refreshes memories! Worth one watch.
Rating: Good

MS Dhoni - The Untold Story

While the Sachin one was a documentary, this one is made like a movie - and it is very well done. Dhoni's story is very much like a Bollywood story indeed. The interesting bits, of course, is about how he met his girlfriend, his wife, about his parents and his early childhood and how he got into cricket. The romantic scenes could have been edited though and unnecessarily elongated the already long saga. Or, could have been replaced by his famous hits - like the 183* that he hit against Sri Lanka. Anyways, coming back to the movie - Sushanth has portrayed the role very well. The actresses are eye-catching and giggly most of the time. The movie doesn't look like a true story and yet it is - hence it is very inspiring. Enjoyed the biopic completely, while musing sadly about the sad events that has occurred in his life; and also how he could have served the Indian cricket about 3-4 years earlier than when he actually started. For once, instead of saying 'What a movie', I will say 'What a man!' :-)
Rating: Good   

What to expect when you are expecting

A romcom. Good enough dose of romance and comedy. Not too much, but just enough to pass off as a good watch. Nothing more, nothing less. As the title says - it is all about the arrival of the new one in the family; multiple couples' stories portrayed one after the other - and their tales doesn't get intertwined, nor are they all related at any one point of time like in 11:14. They all just live tangentially. It is like an anthology of different couples' tales. 
Rating: Average

Rajakumaara

This one is just perfect for Dr Rajkumar's role. This is exactly the kind of movie that script-writers used to write for Dr Raj - a parents'-loving, elders'-loving, people-loving role. Since Dr Raj is not there, who better than his own son?! The first half of the movie turned me off, though. It is hardly worth a watch but the remaining 2 hours more than makes up for it. The story goes topsy-turvy and thats when the creamy side of the movie starts. Excellent dialog, good humor, good casting & acting (especially of the elderly) makes this one watchable and even enjoyable, to an extent. The fight scenes were completely avoidable but I guess they are included to bring in the masses and the youth. A good watch.
Rating: Good

Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya

Run-of-the-mill. Engaged girl meets boy, falls in love and rest is history. Some light twists here, some 30 degree turns there just to fill up the 2.5 hrs. Nothing great to write about. Slight humor. 
Rating: Average

Bajrangi Bhaijaan

This one happened to be my first-time-ever third-movie-of-the-day! And boy, am I glad, this movie turned out to be the way it was. 

A simple yet powerful storyline about connecting a separated dumb daughter to her mother across the ever-turbulent Indo-Pak border. Salman's role portrayal is excellent. The kid's acting is superb albeit being dumb. Kashmir is taken breathtakingly beautiful. The oodles of love that flows across India and Pakistan is wonderful. The whole movie is filled with 'feel-good' factors. Even though the storyline can be predicted, it still is almost an edge-of-the-seat with enough twists and turns. A must-watch.
Rating: Must-see

I Don't Know How She Does It

This has 'uber' written from minute 1. A classy style of film-making. Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan are my favs anyways - and their casting adds charm. Casting, story, narration, acting, direction, screenplay, cinematography, dialog - everything tops the chart. Wholesome entertainer.
Rating: Good

Bridget Jones's Diary

Avoided this movie for a very long time since I thought - for some reason - it was an over-hyped romcom. Gotto see it today and my intuition turned true. Pretty averagish triangle love story. Not much of comedy nor much of romance. Not much significance to the diary either. Time pass.
Rating: Average

Singh is Bliing

Wholesome entertainer only if you keep your brains away - just like the kinng movie! Just see to enjoy! Total time pass movie. Watchable only for Amy Jackson, Punjabi colorful scenes and some light humor especially with the translator. How an absolute goof-up-guy suddenly starts fighting a dozen people single-handedly is something that the brain should not think! Editing not so great - the scenes with the translator sleepwalking could have been avoided - not much laughter. Anyways.
Rating: Good

Toilet - Ek Prem Katha

A true-events-inspired movie that is made very nicely on the delicate topic of open defecation rampant widely in rural India more due to falsely followed ritual of not having a loo in the house due to 'impurity concepts'. Dialog, setting, acting, directing, casting, story - all has come out very well in this dry-humor albeit a serious-topic movie. Definitely worth a watch.
Rating: Must-see 

Jab Harry Met Sejal

Pathetic written all over it from start to finish. I rate very few movies as Pathetic and unfortunately this one is very much so. Maybe I didn't like the characterization of the cast in the story, or maybe it was the too-thin finding-needle-in-haystack plot. Either ways, this one was too difficult to digest with songs coming suddenly of nowhere, cries, potential fight scenes with no fight - seemed like director wanted to make it comical at times but I am not sure. Anyways, avoidable at all costs. Ending is known anyways - even before you start watching the movie!
Rating: Pathetic

Great Grand Masti

Just like the prequel, only one thing is talked-, portrayed-, sung- and danced-about in the movie. Amazing double-meaning-ed humor in pretty much most scenes that maybe doesn't make you ROFL but still tickles. Worth a watch with no expectations.

Rating: Average

Dilwale (SRK)

A movie for 'Company to wifey'! Nothing much to write about. Just another Bollywood masala movie with enough romance, songs, humor, dance, action - and add SRK and Kajol to make it extra special. Total time-pass.
Rating: Average

Tubelight

A relatively nice movie set in 1960s Sino-Indian war period. Granted, this is based on Little Boy American movie, yet I felt it was a nicely made movie that doesn't bore much and kinda instills more of Gandhian principles. Also the setting is nice - a small mountain-top town that overlooks the Himalayas. Also the stuff about having firm faith and belief was kinda inspirational. Not too bad a watch, I must say.
Rating: Good

Kung Fu Yoga

Watched Jackie Chan movie after a really long time and it was typical. Some interesting plots, some great fights, some humour but overall an average movie. Nevertheless, it was nice to see - especially because there were some scenes from India in it & some interesting points on Yoga. The scene of the lion having a car-sickness was hilarious!! And the scene of the hyenas was edgy...
Rating: Average

Jagga Jasoos

Another Anurag Basu movie. Had too many likeness to Barfi - like Ranbir's unique character/role, music by Pritam, Western India setting, etc. The movie started out good but tapered out in the end. A totally different style of narration - much like The Sound of music but not really sure if that helped it or marred it. Without it, maybe it could have been a better movie. Reminded me of Indiana Jones movies with high-octane adventure. Editing seemed very poor in the end, with too many things happening too rapidly, as if narrator had a time limit within which the movie had to end. Some of the adventures are far too filmy and too-good-to-be-true-ish. 
Rating: Average