An archive of Hindi movie reviews and ratings from 2010 to 2020.

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Mayank Shekhar

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Number of reviews
313
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43

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  • Chargesheet

    A year of relentless hustling, hype and expectations inevitably numb achievements, whatever they are, into the obvious. You wish to figure if this was worth this much fuss. Look at the film. The fuss was necessary!

    39

    Oct 2011
  • Soundtrack

    You can still tell a bunch of Bandroids trying hard. Something genuine, off-centre, Indian, original, and cutting image, will eventually emerge from efforts like these. Until then, I guess, we should just bear with these.

    39

    Oct 2011
  • Soundtrack

    This one defies a film. You just lose interest after a while. As do the filmmakers. At some point, out of the blue, they just abandon the whole project...

    19

    Oct 2011
  • Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster

    Tell me another movie that uniquely offers you time-travel and lessons in pop-culture history such as this, and I'll hand you over the right side of my brain that seems to me a bit wobbly right now anyway.

    19

    Sep 2011
  • That Girl in Yellow Boots

    Here's what this film's super-star should do next. Pick up, remake every regional blockbuster of Rajnikanth's from the recent past. That's what super-hero, cartoon character Salman is to the Hindi audiences by now: Rajnikanth for the excitable North.

    29

    Sep 2011
  • Not A Love Story

    We delve deeper into neither the young dream-chasers of a scary celeb industry nor chilling procedurals of an infamous police case, let alone the juicy tabloid drama that followed it. The narrative is predictably linear. Tsk. Waste.

    39

    Aug 2011
  • Gandhi To Hitler

    Devgn walks to beats similar to Salman's Dabanng. He beats the crap out of ruffians outside a village theatre. He restores his woman's honour. Besotted, she chases him. Audiences think even more highly of the hero. He beats the crap some more.

    29

    Jul 2011
  • Gandhi To Hitler

    While entertaining her audiences throughout, the writer-director (Zoya Akhtar, Luck By Chance), with a firm voice of her own, still manages to keep things artistic, without its pretensions; a lot of times, even poetic...

    79

    Jul 2011
  • Murder 2

    I know what most would prefer to know. Yeah. There's homo-erectus Hashmi, and his frisky heroine. That's what really made the first one a huge, hot hit. The leading couple make out. For no apparent reason.

    19

    Jul 2011