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Kucch Love Jaisaa
Madhu (Shefaali Shah), a much-married and terribly antsy housewife chooses to go get a life when her workaholic husband forgets her birthday. She buys herself a car and joins hands with a private detective (Rahul Bose) to help him solve his case. The adventure gets dangerous when she discovers the detective is actually a gangster on the run. Can the wife and mother return unscathed to sweet domesticity or is her life going to change forever? The film has an interesting premise: rich, bored housewife gets attracted to lowbrow goon and is willing to go on a wild goose chase with him. Reason? She wants to bring alive all her wildest fantasies before it's too late to put her ordered, insipid life at stake and take risks. The film also has an interesting cast with Shefaali Shah and Rahul Bose forming an unusual couple on screen. But sadly, they fail to let the sparks fly and get the chemistry crackling. All along, the attraction between them seems fake as they spend long, leisurely hours in a distant resort, eating mutton biryani and carrot juice. The duo try hard, but the romance never does light up the screen. Nor do the private lives of the mismatched couple throw up enticing moments that could hold the script together. Kucch Luv Jaisaa is largely a case of promises unfulfilled.
 X-Men: First Class
Set in the era before Professor Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr became mortal enemies as Professor X and Magneto, respectively, director Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class follows the two former allies as they lead a powerful team of mutants on a mission to save the planet from nuclear annihilation. Charles (James McAvoy) and Erik (Michael Fassbender) were just young men when it began to appear as if the world was careening toward destruction. And as the Doomsday Clock ticks faster toward midnight, the time comes to take action. In the process of saving humanity, however, Charles and Erik clash. In the years that followed, Professor X would lead the X-Men in the fight for good, as Magneto and the Brotherhood spread chaos and destruction throughout the land. Kevin Bacon, Caleb Landry Jones, Nicholas Hoult, January Jones, and Lucas Till star in a film directed by Matthew Vaughn and adapted from a story by Bryan Singer. Like Batman Begins, First Class is bound to pursue a pre-determined outcome, but it makes brief detours here and there that refresh the franchise without jeopardising its sacred canon.
 Kill The Irishman
Kill The Irishman is pretty much the standard mobster biopic, minus the flair that you get with a director like Martin Scorsese. The film chronicles the story of real-life crime figure Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson), a stout and proud Irishman living in Cleveland in the 1970s. Danny starts out as a tireless dock worker, but soon finds himself veering into the lane of organised crime. He takes over a local union via deals with Italian mob boss John Nardi (Vincent D'Onofrio), and is soon catapulted to new heights of power and infamy. Of course, with those "rewards" comes exposure to all the consequences and dangers that go with Danny's new way of life – including a mob feud that soon turn Cleveland's streets into a war zone. Kill The Irishman is a solid film and the script is based on the book To Kill The Irishman by Rick Porrello. The direction is competent, but not at all refreshing or masterful. The movie is able to competently convey what happens from moment to moment – whether it is action or drama – but there isn't really any deeper level of visual metaphor, motifs or style.
 Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
Based on a long-running Italian comic book series created by writer Tiziano Sclavi, the movie stars Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) as Dylan, an eccentric New Orleans Private Investigator determined to avoid the under-the-radar monster society he once policed. The city is home to creatures of the night; he was their appointed peacekeeper. Now, though, he's cryptically damaged, and when a prospective client (Anita Briem) claims her father was murdered by something otherworldly, Dylan says no thanks. He relents only after the connected slaying of his sidekick, Marcus (Sam Huntington). Happily, Dylan actually still has Marcus around to help. As our heroes shuttle between a vampire-run nightclub, a werewolf-run meatpacking plant, and various un-dead haunts, the mystery turns convoluted. Routh is fine playing bemused and beleaguered, but he can't muster the edginess that Dylan is also meant to have. Diggs looks fabulous, but has his own problems with the dangerous stuff. It all becomes pretty glaring around final showdown time, and some overreaching effects don't help.
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