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Mastizaade
It’s all about death yet a steady strain of humour makes the film whimsical than morbid. Like life there is no clear compartmentalisation between pleasure and pain, happiness and grief, celebration and mourning.
Apr 2017
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Naam Shabana
The film might appear radical enough to show a woman fight her way past the men but at the heart of things rests a very male, big boy world-view.
Mar 2017
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Poorna
Despite the low budget Poorna does a fair, if not extraordinary, job of bringing mountaineering on to the big screen.
Mar 2017
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Phillauri
Even the ghosts are sporting a tinge of nationalism in Bollywood films these days.
Mar 2017
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Anaarkali Of Aarah
A unique, well observed, raunchy musical that reiterates that no means no.
Mar 2017
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Trapped
With him the film takes the audience to the edge of the seat and also makes it face its own weaknesses and resourcefulness in crises.
Mar 2017
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Badrinath Ki Dulhania
...Khaitan, is careful in gently nudging the societal system than daring to go radically against it – in short he doesn’t believe in upsetting the applecart.
Mar 2017
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Commando 2
...is an action film that decides to wear another mask; of topicality, social consciousness and patriotism, all for the heck of it. In the process the film loses its own identity entirely.
Mar 2017
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Rangoon
...is an ambitious but overblown, overlong jumble because Bhardwaj decides to take on too many strands. And he doesn’t knit them well as a whole.
Feb 2017
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Feb 2017
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The Ghazi Attack
It’s a straightforward, chronological, well-acted and intermittently engaging watch...
Feb 2017
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Jolly LLB 2
What Jolly LLB 2 essentially shows is how the marriage of opposites—the mainstream dramatic tropes and a realistic tapestry—can be the formula to go for, for Bollywood.
Feb 2017
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Kaabil
... in the second half, the film becomes a usual revenge saga, marginally more engaging than deathly dull, dreary and deadening first half.
Jan 2017
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Raees
Quite like Big B’s Vijay, Raees is anti-establishment, an outlaw and also a Robin Hood figure...
Jan 2017
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Coffee With D
Sending up the media? Spoofing the underworld? Whatever it is that the filmmaker wants to do, it just doesn’t spark any interest in the viewer.
Jan 2017
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Ok Jaanu
...is an overly faithful, shot for shot remake of ‘O Kadhal Kanmani’ but misses out on the charisma of Dulquer and Nithya.
Jan 2017
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Haraamkhor
A distanced view of a taboo relationship goes off the rails in search of a neat resolution.
Jan 2017
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Haraamkhor
Things happen rather randomly on screen—the twists, turns, misunderstandings and reconciliations—and somehow something like a film gets cobbled together.
Jan 2017
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Dangal
Even as the film touches a chord, it makes one compare and contrast it with other Indian sports films, and not glowingly at that.
Dec 2016
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Befikre
What the film does try is to remain unpredictable and breezy in its expression of it. It tries to hold back from wallowing in the traditional, even as it posits the time-honoured and conventional as a solution.
Dec 2016
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Moh Maya Money
...starts off as unsteadily as it ends but comes with a lot in the middle to chew on.
Nov 2016
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Dear Zindagi
At one level then film feels like a mass therapy session in which the audience could find itself getting co-opted and put on the couch. The reaction to it then would be dependant on an individual’s own life experiences.
Nov 2016
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Tum Bin 2
From the beginning to the sudden twist towards the end and then on to a protracted climax, the film has a "seen that many a times" feel.
Nov 2016
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Force 2
...Abhinay Deo doesn’t want us to put the thinking cap on. He just wants to please us with long chases and car crashes, bullets and blood, the views of Chain Bridge and Hero’s Square in Budapest.
Nov 2016
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Nov 2016
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Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
...is the latest in the brand of cinema that isn’t so much as plot driven as it is focused on characters, relationships and interactions.
Oct 2016
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Shivaay
...the film turns out almost three hours long despite just a wisp of a story to tell.
Oct 2016
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Saat Uchhakkey
...would have worked better had it been shorter, sharper with a strong story to tell. If only this film and its maker knew when and where to stop.
Oct 2016
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Mirzya
As in each of his films Mehra is not content with the usual, is highly ambitious with his craft but doesn’t quite hit the target here.
Oct 2016