If Dhurandhar lit your fuse, Dhurandhar 2 will blow your mind with two times the fury, action, and violence. The second part of the Aditya Dhar directorial is an out-and-out Ranveer Singh show that brings pataakhe to Pakistan's terror network party and shreds it to pieces, figuratively and literally.
No matter how contrived and conventional they might get at times, madcap comedies like Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai have a way of trundling along no matter how frequent and imposing the roadblocks in its path are. There are plenty of them here and they do get in the way of the film becoming the pure, old-fashioned laugh riot that it aspires to be.
Shy is going through enough upheaval to make for a genuinely affecting story, but the screenplay often moves on before the consequences of one development have properly settled.
Director Hardik Gajjar's Krishnavataram Part 1: The Heart (Hridayam) is visually stunning and musically powerful even though the VFX sometimes look patchy.
Mahima Nambiar has a significant role with a strong character arc, and she provides the important emotional connection between various characters in this film.
Arshad Warsi is excellent at expressing the myriad emotions his character goes through: sorrow, professional struggle in the cyber world, domestic highs and lows, and finally finding a new partner-in-crime - and no, this time it isn't Munna Bhai.
Toxic is not the gangster Hollywood-style epic one expected (it has some shades of KGF) but it's an ambitious effort undertaken by Yash and Geetu Mohandas to give the Indian audience a unique experiment and it delivers on that for the most part.