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Chargesheet
This film actually has a darn good script, if you could excuse the hero for a bit. Just a bit. But how can you?
Oct 2011
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Chargesheet
Extreme love for the progeny produces corruption in several societies. It produces some terribly inspired entertainment in India.
Oct 2011
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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!
Oct 2011
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My Friend Pinto
These are interesting times. Different voices. Newer faces. Still Bollywood.
Oct 2011
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Aazaan
Beta's also built body. What to do? Papa, I'm told's a Gutkha baron. He gifts him this film.
Oct 2011
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Love Breakups Zindagi
Don't expect too much from this, and I think you'll do just fine.
Oct 2011
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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.
Oct 2011
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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...
Oct 2011
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Chargesheet
A regular film at a multiplex: Rs 250. A post-90s Dev Anand phenomenon: Priceless.
Sep 2011
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
...admirably inspired, is almost a sophomore effort. As you'd know, that's a pretty hefty compliment to pay.
Sep 2011
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
Few funny lines apart, you sense some script-guru's spreadsheet (Syd Field's?) being directly turned into a generic screenplay.
Sep 2011
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
Setting out with a script with better drama, leave aside a plot, could've helped its scale more.
Sep 2011
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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.
Sep 2011
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
...unnecessarily complicated, tiring, lame mess the hero finds himself in, merely to serve the purpose of an over-imagined plot.
Sep 2011
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
It is sad all right, but highly engrossing, entertaining at the same time.
Sep 2011
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That Girl in Yellow Boots
It is, what they call, a quickie: As true for the movie's subject, as for its unsatisfying outcome.
Sep 2011
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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.
Sep 2011
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That Girl in Yellow Boots
Audiences won't find anything new in this movie either. Why bother.
Aug 2011
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Aug 2011
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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.
Aug 2011
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Not A Love Story
...tries so hard to be equally "massy, mainstream". It ends up being neither. A fine opportunity is lost.
Aug 2011
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Chala Mussaddi - Office Office
Television, free chewing gum for the brain, rarely demands half as much as a fully consuming film on the big screen in a dark theatre does.
Aug 2011
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Aug 2011
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Gandhi To Hitler
This stuff's hilarious. If only one didn't have to watch a whole frikin' film for it.
Jul 2011
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Gandhi To Hitler
The pic is a sweet, rare, candid personal piece; the kind of filmmaking the market has least patience for.
Jul 2011
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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.
Jul 2011
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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...
Jul 2011
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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.
Jul 2011