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Zero
The characteristic outstretched arms of SRK get smaller, as does his height, the creative ambition gets bigger but the film stays resolutely middling when it could have been much more.
Dec 2018
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Kedarnath
A protracted climax and worn-out clichés come in the way of what could have been an interesting cinematic exploration of a social fabric in turmoil.
Dec 2018
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Bhaiaji Superhittt
Bhaiaji Superhit also tells the audience to be wary of incorrectly spelt titles that are a camouflage for utterly exasperating, excruciatingly boring films.
Nov 2018
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Pihu
Deliberately designed, repetitive, predictable and emotionally manipulative, Pihu is cinema at its most duplicitous.
Nov 2018
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Mohalla Assi
Despite being based on a strong piece of writing, it feels utterly weak and washed out.
Nov 2018
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Thugs Of Hindostan
Tame, dull and listless, the film lacks any distinct personality and attitude of its own.
Nov 2018
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Tumbbad
As the film progresses the explanatory begins to replace the enigmatic while you long for the shadowy, invisible demons of the mind lurking in the moody frames at the start of the film.
Oct 2018
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Andhadhun
Missing the beginning, end and anything in the middle would then severely imperil what could be the most fun you’d have at the movies.
Oct 2018
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Sui Dhaaga
Sharat Katariya’s brushstrokes in 'Sui Dhaaga' may have got much more broad than in his previous outing but you still end up caring for his characters
Sep 2018
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Batti Gul Meter Chalu
The well-intentioned, cause-driven ‘Batti Gul Meter Chalu’ is more boring than engaging.
Sep 2018
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Sep 2018
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Halkaa
The film’s call against open defecation is gratuitous and in trying to portray class divides ends up widening it.
Sep 2018
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Gali Guleiyan
The film is a fine study of deteriorating places, people, relationships, families, neighbourhoods, communities and human minds with the one aerial shot at the end capturing it all economically.
Sep 2018
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Stree
Between scares, laughs and trying to be feminist, the film does tend to get unwieldy and spreads itself too thin. The three elements play out inconsistently. But on the good side, as in some of the recent Bollywood films, Stree has a quaint sense of place, eccentric characters, a few madcap sequences and some sharply written, consciously irreverent lines to keep one engaged.
Aug 2018
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Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
If you have a taste for such supreme silliness (honest confession, at times my balmy head certainly does) then you’ll be be smiling, if not laughing out loud. The problem is the lack of consistency, with the sharp lines and quick wit often lapsing into the puerile.
Aug 2018
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Satyameva Jayate
Director Milap Zaveri dishes out the same old vigilante justice cinema that we grew up watching in the 80s with a special doff of the hat to the classic Deewar (1975). But his added tadkas can’t hide the essential staleness of the concoction.
Aug 2018
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Gold
...Akshay Kumar is insisting on being the Neo Mr Bharat, film after film, that is now beginning to bore and grate. Someone please rescue him from being the inspirational conscience keeper of contemporary shining India and take him back to entertainment, entertainment, entertainment.
Aug 2018
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Fanney Khan
Despite the presence of a heavy duty cast, the film is just not able to fly. So bogged down does it get with its predictable arc and overt sense of righteousness that it ends up flat and deadening; silly rather than scintillating.
Aug 2018
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Karwaan
Even as the film makes the audience laugh uproariously it keeps them grounded in its own whimsical way with some sobering, everyday wisdom and bitter-sweet insights into loss, longing and life.
Aug 2018
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Mulk
Instead of talking to the converted, director Anubhav Sinha manages to use the conventions and tools of mainstream cinema to go beyond the liberal echo chambers and try and reach out to the masses. That, in fact, could well prove to be Mulk’s biggest strength.
Aug 2018
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Soorma
After all, sports films meant to be electric and rousing. However, it’s this gentle ordinariness and Shaad Ali’s restrained approach that make Soorma appealing.
Jul 2018
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Sanju
Ultimately, the film is not as much about the flaws in the hero as about him being wronged by the media which is yet a convenient villain.
Jun 2018
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Race 3
...I got in this family saga of globalised NRI goons is some stale taste of sheer inanity and randomness.
Jun 2018
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Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
Somewhere Motwane gets too self-aware and conscious—be it the genre of superhero cinema he is playing with or the issue of corruption itself. The point gets belaboured and the film too protracted.
Jun 2018
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Veere Di Wedding
...at a time when the gender question is in such a serious churn and feminism debate at its sharpest, Veere’s light-hearted and giddy take would seem entirely out of depth.
Jun 2018
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102 Not Out
Based on a Gujarati play of the same name, Umesh Shukla’s film is unable to leave its inherent theatricality behind. It gets unchanging in terms of the give and take between the duo and leaves the viewers static too. It stirs nothing within, leaving you unmoved.
May 2018
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Daas Dev
...does have force and vigour, it’s been told with a lot of energy and drive. Wish it could have got visceral enough.
Apr 2018
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Nanu Ki Jaanu
To be fair, silliness, if done with aplomb, can be sublime fun at times. Nanu Ki Jaanu is none of it, only laughable.
Apr 2018
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Beyond The Clouds
Majid Majidi tries to combine his minimalistic approach with Bollywoodian melodrama with disappointing results.
Apr 2018