Smugglers, Cadillacs, cabarets, bell bottoms, blings and one-liners - these are some of the retro trends that director Milan Luthria is revisiting in his underworld saga "Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai", releasing Friday.

America has Americans. The English have Englishmen. France hosts the French, and so on, so forth. There is but no such thing
related stories as an Indian. There are only Punjabis, Gujaratis, Maharashtrians, Bengalis. Akshay Kumar’s Sachin makes this linguistic observation about a truly imagined nation he lives in.

Karachi has its own version of yuppies, I am told. They call them ‘burgs’ after, I guess, the McDonald’s burgers. These rich
young, western in their aspirations and outfit, forever live the American dream, are often scoffed at for their twisted orientation.

Master director Kanti Shah’s unique contribution to the warped Indian male hormone, I’m afraid, will remain under-rated
forever. I don’t know how many of you’ve heard of Mr Shah’s grind-house classics – Gunda, Loha, Phoolan Haseena Ramkali….

After tickling the funny bones of their fans with "Hera Pheri" "Garam Masala" and "Bhool Bhulaiyaa", the hit pair of director Priyadarshan and actor Akshay Kumar is back for the sixth time with yet another light-hearted outing, "Khatta Meetha", which releases Friday.

The dialogue writer of this film is weirdly inclined towards banal repetitions. Among words he chooses to drill in to his audience’s ears again and again – “Operation ’89”, “Kashmir, the most dangerous place on earth”, “Is this a political gimmick?”…. – “Kashmir ek bahut badi company hai” (Kashmir’s a huge company) seems a perennial favourite.

In 1959 in France, a teenage boy ran away from a juvenile home. That moment in "400 Blows" was symbolic for French cinema, as with it they left the baggage of cliché behind and embraced a new, youthful vibrancy that would change cinema of the World.