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Vishwaroop
Vishwaroop’s story is preposterous at the best of times, but it is directed with 100% conviction.
Feb 2013
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Gangoobai
Writer and director Priya Krishnaswamy keeps the proceedings simple and the emotions even simpler.
Jan 2013
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Table No. 21
If there was ever a movie in need of an enhanced computer-generated imagery budget, it is this one.
Jan 2013
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Khiladi 786
The anything-goes movie is packed with so many random characters and even more random jokes that moments of inspired humour emerge out of the hodgepodge.
Dec 2012
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Gangs Of Wasseypur 2
The movie is as much heartless fun as the first, but it will also hopefully be the last word in the romanticisation of mofussil chic that has come to characterise a section of Hindi cinema.
Aug 2012
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Ferrari Ki Sawaari
Mapuskar directs his actors with confidence and boldly shoots the films in real locations, but the movie needed to have been crisper and quicker, more Ferrari than Ambassador.
Jun 2012
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Jun 2012
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Department
...the movie is a self-consciously parodic version of the cops-and-gangster genre that Varma has mined successfully in the past as a director and producer.
May 2012
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May 2012
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Agent Vinod
...several shades lighter than Raghavan’s previous crime thrillers, Ek Hasina Thi and Johnny Gaddaar.
Mar 2012
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Kahaani
Sujoy Ghosh is capable of delivering a tight script. He shows us that you can make a Hindi movie without songs and nobody will miss them.
Mar 2012
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Ekk Deewana Tha
Almost nothing works in the Hindi version. Prateik flubs his way through almost every scene; the editing is video-game frenetic, the cinematography tacky...
Feb 2012
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Agneepath
...richly detailed and grandly mounted sequences that just about manage to conceal the fact that this is a redundant remake.
Feb 2012
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Players
...it never makes the mistake of taking itself too seriously and manages to successfully Bollywood-ise a Hollywood speciality - the big-budget heist movie.
Jan 2012
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Desi Boyz
The movie is judgement-free, but it's also very pat. Buried underneath the piles of clothes discarded by Rocco and Hunter is a full-on sex comedy that's dying to come out.
Nov 2011
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Nov 2011
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Rockstar
...there's ultimately no escaping the poorly drawn characters, Khan's weird mannerisms and the surfeit of references to the male nether regions.
Oct 2011
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
The actors sparkle, the dialogue crackles and, after what seems to be aeons, there is a sense of a director approaching his material with seriousness.
Oct 2011
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Force
...isn't quite as offensive as some other recent releases, but it neither captures the thrills of the original nor fixes the flaws.
Oct 2011
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Force
...evokes nearly every Hollywood sport-movie cliche there is in tracing the transformation of the Speedy Singhs team from underdog to top dog.
Sep 2011
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Force
...starts promisingly but runs into rough weather as soon as it leaves rural Punjab and goes globe-trotting.
Sep 2011
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
The story needed to have been far more farcical – and an hour shorter – for the premise to have worked. The story drags despite frenetic editing that seems to be aimed squarely at gamers.
Sep 2011
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
There's the same catatonic acting, the staccato dialogue delivery, the bursts of violence, the over-loud background score, the strange camera angles, the crooked cops and larger-than-life thugs. Perhaps it's time to give the Mumbai gangster genre a rest.
Sep 2011
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
Rather than schadenfreude, the emotion likely to linger on after the film is over is empathy.
Sep 2011
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
Until somebody comes up with a smart way to channelise his brawny appeal and knack for self-deprecating humour – as Abhinav Singh Kashyap did in Dabanng – we are condemned to watch bad films repeat themselves.
Sep 2011
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
...patchily written and too long for its own good. But it is also attempts to tackle the issue of the acquisition of farm land with some degree of seriousness.
Aug 2011
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Aug 2011