Raincoat

Mannu (Ajay Devgan) with a heavy heart and an empty wallet leaves his small town of Bhagalpur for Calcutta in an effort to raise money for his business. As he wanders around Calcutta he finds himself at the doorstep of Neeru (Aishwarya Rai), his childhood love...

Mr. Devgan is decent in this unusual stoic and pensive role which he underplays. Ms. Rai is breathtaking as always and even acts for a change. But the actor who steals the show is Annu Kapoor in his ten minute cameo. And while giving kudos let us not forget 0. Henry and Rituparno Ghosh without whom the film would not be possible.

Rating: * * * *

Halla Bol

Sameer Khan (Ajay Devgan) is an arrogant actor with nary a scruple. But seeing a girl being murdered causes him to magically remember the conscience he once had. After an hour, I realized that even the presence of Pankaj Kapur and Vidya Balan couldn't save this cliche filled sorry excuse of a film.



Rating: +

Omkara

From the point of acting in Dil Chahta Hai, Saif Ali Kahn has discovered the sacred art of acting. He again along with Ajay Devgan has done some good work in this film. The only weak link in the movie is Vivek Oberoi who seems to be able to portray only two mudras. He either looks happy like an idiot or looks very confused.

The movie is really well made. But since it is yet another take on Othello, it went stale on me after a while.

Rating: * * +