What could have been a relevant crowd-pleaser with a little effort from Sohail Khan and his writers is mostly a tedious and overcrowded drivel that shamelessly depends on Salman Khan's strapping charisma to tide them over, writes Sukanya Verma.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
A look at the party pictures.
The HRX story will be watched closely by many, for Bollywood stars have rarely made the transition from movies to business.
Yo, Rohit Shetty, what's with the volume, bro? asks Raja Sen
If Irrfan could have been our finest professor of empirical philosophy, and Nawaz is our foremost poet of that space halfway between the gutter and the stars, then Jaideep Ahlawat has to be our greatest artist-scientist, asserts Sreehari Nair.
A look at the top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Things are off to a good start when a lead movie character appears for the first time against strategic music or swaggering drama and the audience bursts into wholehearted whistles and applause.
When Modi's name was called out by the Secretary General for taking oath, Members from the ruling National Democratic Alliance thumped the desk greeting the Prime Minister with slogans such as 'Modi Modi' and 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'.
A look at the top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Besharam is so unbelievably sloppy and senseless, not even the best actors in the business can redeem it.
Hema Malini goes back in time, and recalls some beautiful moments from her life.
Kicking off our Valentine's Day special, filmi style!
Superheroes, Holi, apples and other happenings from Sukanya Verma's super filmi week!
'My mother has one complaint -- I die in all of my films. She has told me to stop dying now.'
Yes, they're both movie directors. But there's something else!
'It feels like a part of me is going away with her death.'
Review: Saif and Katrina make Phantom a joke
War is as grand and consummate as love in Bollywood.
Aamir Khan's unsettling revelations on rape contradict the gleaming lines of his introduction speech -- Hindustan badal raha hai, ek laher si chal rahi hai.Sukanya Verma reviews the Episode 1 of Satyamev Jayate's second season
Indians took to social media to pay their respects.
'The audience will make you a superstar or will reject you, no matter whose son or brother-in-law you are.'
Take a look at ten filmmakers who also love acting.
What your favourite celebrities are saying on social media.
The lasting influence of Amitabh Bachchan's Supremo, hitchhiking with Salman Khan, a taste of Tom Alter, Padmaavat's best scene and more in Sukanya Verma's Super-filmi Week.
'A journalist met me after Mastizaade failed and said, "'Whatever you do in life, you will never get rid of the Sex Comedy King of India tag".' 'She didn't mean to hurt me, but it broke me.'
'The most important aspect of Bajrangi Bhaijaan is the use of humour to touch some sensitive and potentially explosive political-religious and cultural subjects.'
Political observers feel that the outcome of the elections weighs in favour of the BJP which had won a massive mandate in the Lok Sabha elections, held earlier this year.
The fact that a woman-centric film can challenge those increasingly inane hero-vehicles is certainly cause for celebration, raves Raja Sen.
'Amitabh Bachchan told me, "I don't appreciate other people doing my voice".'
'If you see the way Shammi Kapoor danced... that was Geeta Bali's personality. My mother was a bigger and more successful star than my father when they got married.'
'We were shooting a sequence where I have a showdown with a minister. After the director said cut, I looked around and everybody was giggling. Then I saw that my dhoti had given away and was on the ground!' Shreyas Talpade discusses Waj Taj.
Jyoti Punwani examines the relevance of the Sairat, the hit Marathi film everyone is talking about, in today's times.
The strategic success of the surgical strikes has not matched their brilliant tactical achievement, says Shekhar Gupta.
'After 8 to 10 hours of running, when my body starts paining, I keep thinking about the pain and sacrifice of my mother and it makes my will stronger.'
'This army has lost Pakistan's territory, ideology, financial and intellectual capital, ruined its institutions, democracy, the respect for its passport and, like it or not, reduced its status to a globally acknowledged university of jihad,' says Shekhar Gupta.
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