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Jul 2011
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Bbuddah...Hoga Terra Baap
...the director here's also an unabashed fanboy. So many of Bachchan’s blinded filmmakers unfortunately are.
Jul 2011
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Bbuddah...Hoga Terra Baap
...these gents -- Arshad Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh, Javed Jaffery (and Ashish. Of course) -- have had to do the kind of things for a living, endure a sort of public embarrassment for entertainment’s sake, they should be entitled to a gallantry award. No less. So should their audience.
Jun 2011
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Bbuddah...Hoga Terra Baap
The sequel's forced the filmmakers to look for a plot on their own. I'm not sure if they did find one eventually. At least I can’t quite find it in the film.
Jun 2011
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Always Kabhi Kabhi
The outcome may be partly pretentious; it's largely satisfying still.
Jun 2011
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Always Kabhi Kabhi
...this isn't a story about love, much less a story, or a film, at all.
Jun 2011
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Jun 2011
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Kucch Luv Jaisaa
The relationship between the housewife and the wanted hoodlum offers neither dread nor drama. It remains flat throughout.
May 2011
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Kucch Luv Jaisaa
The screenplay, an excellent effort at genuine Indian dick-lit writing, still rings true, in several parts. The solid material isn't however contained enough to make for a tight film.
May 2011
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Shagird
The script may still have seemed quite striking on paper to some. The filmmaker's just never sure when he's diving deep into realism, and when he's completely frikin' stretchin' it.
May 2011
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Shagird
The realism gently, warmly sucks you in. You sit back, sometimes reminisce, mostly observe.
May 2011
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May 2011
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Haunted
This is "India's first stereoscopic 3D film", ideally made for audiences that in business lingo are called 'B' and 'C' centres. Haunted evidently wants to be the Wanted for the same crowd.
May 2011
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Luv Ka The End
This is just an XL sheet movie from a supposed docket that defines youth as some condescending, amorphous term from marketing alone. The filmmakers are desperately trying to look in from the distant outside.
May 2011
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Chalo Dilli
It's just banal, belaboured, contrived concoction that's just not funny; certainly not fun.
Apr 2011
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Chalo Dilli
Clearly, the director's picked up strongly engaging conflicts. It should also be as noted achievement for online social networks that, along with professional producers, the filmmaker found 400 unknown investors from across 45 cities of the world to back this vision.
Apr 2011
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Chalo Dilli
What you do notice about this quintessentially metropolis movie is its sheer spunk, verve and adorably absurd humour.
Apr 2011
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Apr 2011
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Chalo Dilli
Sometimes, you wish filmmakers wrote their own reviews to enlighten us on exactly what they've made.
Apr 2011
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Thank You
The public better like this flick. After all, crores get spent on such trash.
Apr 2011
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F.A.L.T.U
Frat-boy, crass fun is a legit Hollywood genre. The unlikely issue with Faltu is it isn't faltu enough. It unleashes a lengthy manifesto for educational reforms instead.
Apr 2011
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F.A.L.T.U
You can tell, this is a B movie that was suddenly allowed better budgets later in its making.
Mar 2011
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F.A.L.T.U
Every film needn't merit a review. Some deserve little reports addressed to loved ones alone; just so they know you're fine, and that you really did survive the movie.
Mar 2011
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F.A.L.T.U
...it’s still not the rom-com you saw last weekend, and certainly not the one you’ve been watching for years. The difference? It’s still more real, and the nuances bear an inspired writer’s imagination.
Feb 2011