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Lafangey Parindey
The problem is that the urban ambience and the chatter in Lafangey Parindey doesn’t quite work because director Pradeep Sarkar appears unfamiliar with the dialect he is working with.
Aug 2010
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Lafangey Parindey
A tale about fighting cancer? Nearly mistook it for a homage to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
Sep 2010
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Lafangey Parindey
...does not find resonance in the context of Indian nuclear families.
Sep 2010
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Lafangey Parindey
Unlike a typical Salman Khan movie, this has got a plot, a well-behaved hero, and even a script.
Sep 2010
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Sep 2010
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Robot
Niether is Do Dooni Chaar original, nor can it boast of engaging treatment, but for ambience, casting and performance, it is 'numero uno'.
Oct 2010
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Oct 2010
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Rakht Charitra – I
If more proof were needed that Ram Gopal Varma has finally lost the plot, this is it
Oct 2010
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Rakht Charitra – I
There is no doubting Sanjay Leela Bhansali's superb sense of aesthetics, but he reduces the issue of euthansia to a TV show debate.
Nov 2010
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Dec 2010
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Break Ke Baad
An unconvincing period film that fails to establish the setting, but nevertheless raises some essential points
Dec 2010
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Band Baaja Baaraat
...gets the sound of go-getting Dilli pitch-perfect but slips up on the romance front.
Dec 2010
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Band Baaja Baaraat
Parody of the medium is legitimate, but when it substitutes for content, you have to ask-is the mind of the maker no more than a blank slate?
Dec 2010
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Jan 2011
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Band Baaja Baaraat
To enjoy the peculiarly Punjabi flavour of this film, you have to let go of little things like inhibitions.
Jan 2011
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Band Baaja Baaraat
The city of great texture and matching indifference is poignantly captured by Kiran Rao in a sparkling debut.
Jan 2011
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Band Baaja Baaraat
Unlike a Bhandarkar movie, it has no memorable characters, no social commentary, and sadly, no big laughs either.
Feb 2011
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Patiala House
With its formulaic perspective and wishy-washy characters drawn from British sitcoms, this is no Bend It Like Beckham. Or even close.
Feb 2011
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7 Khoon Maaf
...ends up as a hothouse of exotic spouses with names scratched off the catalogue at metronomic intervals.
Feb 2011
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7 Khoon Maaf
A predictable triangle, you would think. But then a few things are said, and a few scenes elaborated, in ways so startling, so moving and so well acted, that set pieces dissolve.
Mar 2011
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Apr 2011
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Thank You
...is chipped china, but in the context of recent Hindi movies, at least you are drinking from crockery.
Apr 2011
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Thank You
The relief in watching Shor in the City is partly in the reprieve from the Golmaal variety of comedy. You don't have to guffaw like a retard. You can chuckle quietly.
May 2011
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Haunted
Some ghost stories leave you scared, some make you laugh. This one makes you yawn.
May 2011
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Ragini MMS
...a canny low-budget film with little art. But it appeals to a large cross-section.
May 2011
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Ready
A sickeningly goody goody movie that bores the shirt off you. Salman, keep yours on.
Jun 2011