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Ekk Deewana Tha
Menon struggles to achieve grand emotion but the story is thin and the telling, insipid.
Feb 2012
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Mar 2012
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Chaurahen
...brims with tortured souls, pensive silences, meaningful looks and meals left unfinished. Not surprisingly, it’s a slog of a film.
Mar 2012
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Agent Vinod
...never becomes more than the sum of its parts and even though it picks up speed in the second half, it leaves you both exhausted and unsatisfied.
Mar 2012
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Apr 2012
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Housefull 2
...has exactly the same mix of stars, foreign locations, farcical plot and spectacularly dim-witted comedy as the first Housefull. This is the cinematic equivalent of junk food - when you walk in, you know exactly what you're going to get.
Apr 2012
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Vicky Donor
...is one of those rare Hindi films that work purely on the strength of writing and performances.
Apr 2012
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Hate Story
....is being pitched as an erotic thriller but it’s neither very thrilling or particularly erotic. But it does work as unintentional comedy.
Apr 2012
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May 2012
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Dangerous Ishhq
Kapoor is an attractive woman who tries earnestly to make sense of this time-warped story. But it is a Herculean task.
May 2012
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Arjun
...is a step forward for Indian animation. I only wish the storytelling itself had been more animated.
May 2012
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Rowdy Rathore
...beats you to a pulp, cinematically. It's a relentless assault that kicks in as soon as the credit titles roll.
Jun 2012
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Jun 2012
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Gangs Of Wasseypur
...is by turns absorbing and frustrating. Watching it feels like gorging on too much good food, leaving you feeling more exhausted than satiated. But there is enough in the sound and fury to enjoy.
Jun 2012
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Maximum
Can we all agree that Bollywood has squeezed as much cinema as is humanly possible out of Mumbai’s infamous encounter cops, their weasel-faced informers and the police-politician-builder-underworld nexus?
Jun 2012
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Bol Bachchan
...mediocre entertainment, which is almost depressing in its repetitiveness. A fitting label would be: The Cinema of Exhaustion.
Jul 2012
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Cocktail
He (Imtiaz Ali) creates a love triangle that references Archie's comics, the 1980s television show Three's Company and the oeuvre of Aditya Chopra-Karan Johar (foreign locales, decadent Western lifestyle, superior Indian values) and yet feels new.
Jul 2012
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Jism - 2
...should have been way more fun than this. The film is an anti-climactic let-down.
Aug 2012
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Ek Tha Tiger
Director and co-writer Kabir Khan takes the larger-than-life Salman Khan persona and wraps it in an engaging story that services it.
Aug 2012
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Barfi!
...for me, Barfi was a singularly frustrating experience there was so much to like, but the film never became more than the sum of its parts.
Sep 2012
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Heroine
At one point in Heroine, a character asks: Iss glamour industry mein kaun fraud nahin hota. This film certainly is one.
Sep 2012
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English Vinglish
English Vinglish is that rare thing - a Hindi film that creates a heroine out of a homemaker.
Oct 2012
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Aiyyaa
...parts of Aiyyaa have energy and passion. But it is drowned by the insistence on being wakda - crooked. Clearly wackiness can't carry a film.
Oct 2012