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Chargesheet
...executed brilliantly by some of the finest actors on screen and a surprisingly self-assured debutant director.
Oct 2010
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Chargesheet
This is an "issue-based" film that closely analyses racist attacks against young nihatthe (helpless) Indians in Australia!
Oct 2010
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Robot
This film, just a few feet too long, is fine entertainment by itself. I'm evidently an atheist to this religion, so I guess, you can trust this note.
Oct 2010
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Oct 2010
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Robot
This is the sort of self-produced, independent, low-budget, boutique film that you go to niche film festivals for. They serve as fair audition tapes for better things to come. Hopefully.
Sep 2010
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Robot
It'd be a shame to watch this anywhere outside of an old, decrepit single screen theatre, in the spirit of the loud tribal tradition that Hindi movies have always been: severely light on both the brains and the wallet. Mad stuff! Really.
Sep 2010
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Robot
...the pathos here is produced not from moments, but from performances alone: a stunning Kajol’s in particular.
Sep 2010
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Robot
...executed amateurishly with poor camera work, jumps in edits, over-acting, that's all.
Aug 2010
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Robot
While the filmmakers figured their supposedly perfect setting out, a story didn't follow.
Aug 2010
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Lafangey Parindey
Such scatter-brained, mish-mash of a movie is only possible when the makers' eyeballs are trained at some sucker or the other the cinema's intended for, and not the soul of even a semblance of a script.
Aug 2010
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Aug 2010
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Help
The atmospherics is complete. The intentions aren’t off the mark. You may like to voyeuristically share a rich experience (with the film’s cast, or crew, in this case). You only wish this sense of outdoor adventure could conceal the blandness of the drama within.
Aug 2010
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Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai
The subject is immediately exhilarating still. As is this film.
Jul 2010
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Khatta Meetha
The jokes, you can tell, have pretty much dried up. No amount of slapstick will wet this pool.
Jul 2010
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Khatta Meetha
That a film can so convincingly make light of an unbearable tragedy is its astounding comic achievement.
Jul 2010
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Khatta Meetha
It's not easy to make sense of Kashmir. It's harder still then to make sense of this film.
Jul 2010
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Red Alert
The movie, dull on drama, doesn’t take a stand. The backdrop is its only purpose, and doubles up for its skeletal plot.
Jul 2010
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Milenge Milenge
...while the film’s main pair may not be friends anymore...they can’t quite disown a new release that celebrates them still. Well. Sucks. I guess!
Jul 2010
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Milenge Milenge
Mental exhaustion is too minor a price to pay for this cutesy honesty. Come on, give it a shot. I dare you.
Jun 2010
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Milenge Milenge
This is that severely unexpected self-indulgence in a career of close to three decades, which digs out nothing but his own cinematic cliches.
Jun 2010
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Raajneeti
Just to let you in on a mental note I made smilingly stepping out of this film’s interval: “You so know it when you’re watching one of the most powerful Bollywood dramas ever!” I wish I could say that for the rest of the movie. Well. Halfway there then, I guess.
Jun 2010
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Raajneeti
It’s a passionately romantic pic, or at least hyped as one in ways that few films can live up to. The expression of that intense love, its most important element, is often lost in translation - what many might rightly perceive as lack of chemistry between the leading pair.
May 2010
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Bumm Bumm Bole
The producers could’ve saved themselves all the effort and expenses, and just dubbed Children Of Heaven in Hindi instead.
May 2010
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Bumm Bumm Bole
You cringe in helplessness, to realise, this is just a sad B-movie, merely testing bounds of insanity, secretly hoping for a cult status.
May 2010
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Badmaash Company
The picture’s premise is strong. The setting is solid. The scam’s quite awesome. The friends make for quite a foursome. All are equally endearing. As are their antics. And then the screen flashes, Interval. Everything dopily goes down a slope thereafter, and onward to America, arrogance and all that jazz.
May 2010
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Badmaash Company
Laughter is the subject; a laugh, being a subjective thing, of course. So, laughing gas is forced into the climax. Canned laughter should elicit even more collective laughs. You want to pause for breath. Your brains deserve a break.
May 2010
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City Of Gold
Never mind a generic trivialisation of an important mill workers’ issue, though that's disturbing enough. You’d imagine at least the family’s backdrop is essential to this plot. It isn’t.
Apr 2010