With director Sam Mendes, you can always expect the unexpected. He has done the dark comedy (American Beauty), the gangsta flick (Road to Perdition), the brutally introspective (Jarhead) and the off-beat drama (Revolutionary Road).

In an age when most prefer to play safe, he is happy experimenting with genres. And that's worthy of admiration. In Away We Go as well, Mendes walks a different path, crafting a movie that smells like a road flick but is actually a drama without drama.

In school, most of us read Linda Goodman's Love Signs, a wooing-made-easy book, the astrological way.

Goodman told us why it was important to know the zodiac sign of a stunning girl in the college or a handsome hunk in the neighbourhood before embarking on the arduous path of romance. It's rashee, the zodiac sign, that decides our personality type, she said. And we believed her. For Yogesh Patel, the central character of Ashutosh Gowariker's latest movie, though, rashee isn't for romance but marriage. The young MBA student-cum- executive-cum-guitarist-cum-DJ must match his compatibility with one of 12 girls over six days before taking the big plunge. It isn't an easy choice to make, especially with a bunch of goons threatening to chop off his fingers.

Dil Bole Hadippa begins with Veera (Rani Mukherjee), the spunky Punjabi kudi in bright pink kurta and blue dupatta doing what Yuvraj Singh did to Stuart Broad in the Twenty20 World Cup two years ago: smashing six sixes off six balls. When you write - A for all-rounder, B for batsman, C for catch and D for dreams - you are cricket-crazy all right.