An archive of Hindi movie reviews and ratings from 2010 to 2020.

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Shilajit Mitra

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Number of reviews
84
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45

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  • Section 375

    ...as the politics of Section 375 gradually comes into view, it loses all claim on even-handedness. This is a film too smug about its own neutrality, using it as a front to sneak in a damaging conclusion.

    39

    Sep 2019
  • Jhootha Kahin Ka

    Comedies like Jhootha Ka Nahin are horror  in today’s age. Their ‘error’ isn’t derived from characters double-dealing each other, but in filmmakers thinking they can double-deal the audience.

    19

    Jul 2019
  • Family Of Thakurganj

    With little resources, filmmakers like Prakash Jha, Tigmanshu Dhulia and Anurag Kashyap made our northern badlands cinematic. It’s the impostors that come now who are balling up the place. They exploit dialect for laughs, landscape for scenery, and violence for plot twists. It’s all so criminally wrong. 

    39

    Jul 2019
  • Malaal

    The film is constantly aiming for a large-canvas treatment, often at the expense of local colour and depth. Only because it can. 

    And, because this is ultimately a launch film. 

    39

    Jul 2019
  • Student Of The Year 2

    ...in trying to tell a rags-to-riches story in a franchise that solely celebrates the latter, he belittles the spirit of genuine sports films worth their salt. As a love story, too, the film is bereft of spark, with tired tricks and predictable arcs promptly giving away who will go with whom. 

    29

    May 2019
  • Setters

    ...is a Neeraj Pandey movie directed by someone else (Ashwini Chaudhary), one that features Shreyas Talpade and Aftab Shivdasani in place of Akshay Kumar and Manoj Bajpayee.

    39

    May 2019
  • Notebook

    It soon becomes clear that Notebook — for all its postcard framings and poetic peg — is still very much about one thing: introducing two new faces to the world, and serving as their showreel.

    39

    Mar 2019
  • Photograph

    Ritesh Batra has crafted a sweet homage to the movies that complete our dreams. It takes a while but finds its heart. Don’t let the festival olives tell you otherwise. 'Photograph' is a Hindi film that’s happy to be one.

    69

    Mar 2019
  • Sonchiriya

    Devious and unforgiving, Abhishek Chaubey’s filmmaking lugs Sonchiriya into uncharted mainstream territory. Its reflective pace might puzzle a few, especially audiences unaccustomed to revisionist cinema, but I’m hoping for the humour to sell.

    79

    Mar 2019