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Aiyaary
...wants to be a daring thriller that calls out smarmy politicians and arms dealers. But it only fires blanks.
Feb 2018
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A Flying Jatt
The lowbrow comic-strip spirit of A Flying Jatt extends to the film's rough-hewn production design. Nothing that appears on the screen, neither the houses nor the props, looks real.
Aug 2016
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Baadshaho
There is no dearth of surface gloss in Badshaho. A peep behind the glossy curtain reveals an overcooked but bland curry western that deserves instant banishment to the wilderness it has emerged from.
Sep 2017
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Son Of Sardaar
Poppycock in Phagwara: that is what the film should have been named. While the men on the screen defy gravity at will, the narrative defies logic without a care.
Nov 2012
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Bhoot – Part One
Only the very, very faint-hearted will find its jump scares worth the din that surrounds them. For the rest, Bhoot: Part One is akin to a ride on a stranded ship. You start at point A and end at point A and, what's worse, with a headache you could have done without.
Feb 2020
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Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon
The obvious mismatch between aspiration and result is too glaring to be missed.
Sep 2015
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Dabangg 3
...is an all too formulaic one-way street that holds no surprises at all. It goes nowhere we haven't been before.
Dec 2019
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Gabbar Is Back
Clearly, nobody put the makers of this film through the paces. They might have then known how to make the best of their limited cinematic resources and craft something less mucky.
May 2015
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Thackeray
...a cinematic lionising of a political career that thrived on exclusionary, majoritarian muscle-flexing. Not a great idea in these fractious times. As provocative as the politics it celebrates, Thackeray is a film that is best left alone.
Jan 2019
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Ab Tak Chhappan 2
...peddles old wine in what clearly looks like a bottle recycled without much imagination.
Feb 2015
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Parmanu
...is as a flat as a pancake, a hopelessly limp exercise with creaky nucleus that is buried under a mound of forced tropes before it can get going.
May 2018
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Student Of The Year 2
This is brainlessly breezy fare wrapped in gloss that wears off quickly. It is sad to see such silly stuff being palmed off as teen entertainment.
May 2019
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Super Nani
A preachy and mawkish drama about a woman neglected, scorned and tormented by her own oafish family, Super Nani makes its pro-women's empowerment statement with the finesse of a bulldozer run amok.
Oct 2014
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Crazy Cukkad Family
It does have its moments. But the laboured humour and the emotions that underline it get so corny at times that it comes pretty close to flying off the rails.
Jan 2015
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Running Shaadi
...a film that never finds its feet. So let alone break into a steady trot, it can barely get out of its cramped crouch.
Feb 2017
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Ujda Chaman
If the boorish behaviour of the young and restless is for the purpose of dramatization, it does not work one bit. It robs Ujda Chaman of any possibility of being realistic and relatable - and, of course, of every driblet of decency.
Nov 2019
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Yamla Pagla Deewana 2
...its attempts to pass off lunacy as a humour simply do not have the force to hold such a long film together.
Jun 2013
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Teraa Surroor
...is pretty much like Himesh’s singing: it’s a drone that gets grating after a point.
Mar 2016
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Banjo
...is a stodgy, sluggish film that makes a great deal of noise about giving true performers their due. It barely gets its noble point across.
Sep 2016
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Haseena Parkar
Nothing, therefore, can salvage this insipid biopic from the morass of mediocrity.
Sep 2017
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Khiladi 786
...has nothing new to offer. It is cut from the same cloth that has yielded many of Akshay Kumar's recent vehicles. These films have sought to cash in on his rough and rowdy screen persona.
Dec 2012
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Veerappan
...does not shy away from making a great deal of noise, but the film is more akin to soggy gelatin sticks delivering a damp squib than a big explosive device triggering an earth-shattering bang.
May 2016
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Vishwaroop II
It repeatedly fires blanks - noisy but of no use. Has a movie sequel ever been so pointless?
Aug 2018
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Dil Juunglee
Everything about Dil Juunglee is a bit on the wild side, completely arbitrary and illogical.
Mar 2018
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The Shaukeens
This film is a disaster all right, but it is mitigated somewhat by a quirky if uneven subplot that has Akshay playing himself and poking constant fun at the work that he has done thus far as a Bollywood actor.
Nov 2014
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Housefull 3
...mindless tale, often hitting dead-ends from where there can be no return to sanity.
Jun 2016
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Saaho
...may, like so many other shrill, gory actioners of the recent past, end up make pots of money. But that will not take away from the fact that it is egregiously turgid.
Aug 2019
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Brothers
It makes so much noise that any sensible point about brotherly bonding and filial fidelity that it might be trying to make is completely drowned out by the decibels.
Aug 2015
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Ghayal Once Again
...looks every inch like a film that has arrived at least 25 years too late even though it does reflect the undeniable fact that corruption is still a way of life in this country.
Feb 2016