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

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  • Together the three actors add incredible zest, flesh, and energy to roles that compel you look at the world through each perspective, and probably even find oneself in it in some form.

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  • ...explores the depths of Anurag Kashyap's versatility. And the indulgence he is often accused of shows up only towards the end to provide answers of what should have ended at a request.

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  • At times, the story might be a little too deep for millennials, but Manmarziyaan is one of the best romantic movies to come out of Bollywood in a long time.

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  • Love triangles are as old as cinema itself. But this one marks an evolution of the genre that most reduce to “who gets the girl?” and comprehensively concludes that often, love is not all it takes.

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  • ...is a love story not a rom com, its real, true, passionate and everlasting, Anurag Kashyap adds his intoxicatingly haunting, real and edgy mix to the bonbon of love Bollywood has been receiving since ages to tell a love story that will haunt for ages from now on. 

    79

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  • Anurag has made a Silsila for the Tinder generation.  Yash Chopra would have approved...

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  • So one thought stays constant while watching this film — the premise is all wrong, yet the emotions are so right. Loveless marriages are as much a way of life as lust-filled encounters.

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  • ...Anurag Kashyap’s spin on modern love has a lot of heart and depth.  The film especially deserves a watch for trying to do something different to what we commonly see in romantic cinema. It’s a story well acted and well told. 

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  • It's a predictable tale written on your heart with a whip. Go watch it!

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  • Like love, this film is messy and flawed and glorious. You have to sign up for all of it.

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  • ...may not be perfect but it gets some things perfectly right. I left the theatre in appreciation of the sheer craft on display.

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  • ...even when Anurag Kashyap tackles a template, he makes it his own.

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  • ...comes across as a contemporary and an unorthodox tale laced with some brilliant performances and powerful writing.

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  • ...laced with humour and warmth, is a love story with flashes - only flashes, not a sustained flow - of inspiration.

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  • ...Anurag Kashyap’s most emotionally resonant movie yet, injects considerable vim and wit into the most conservative and predictable of sub-genres: the love triangle.

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  • For a director whose narratives are propelled more by dramatic incident than by character psychology, Manmarziyaan represents a bit of an experiment. Though the film is perpetually busy over its 150-odd minutes, there’s little forward movement, and a lot of sideways shuffling.

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  • ...lets you go with the feeling that you've just seen Dev D from a Paro's point of view. Except, a mediocre version.

    59

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  • It is ultimately a disappointment not because of its craft, but because of predictability, self-indulgent pace and its irritating attempt to be both a light crowd-pleaser with a cutesy ending as well as an impassioned, volatile romance.

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  • Confused lovers in films bore me. I can’t empathise with them any longer. Despite that, the performances took me through, they are that good.

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  • ...revs up fast at the start but loses momentum just as quick and early.

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  • You enjoy the initial exhilaration born out of breathless passion as the winsome boy and girl engage in the age-old dance of desire. And then they become exhausting. As does the film.

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  • The storytelling deserves a big thumbs down though.

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  • With ‘Mukkabaaz’ last year, and with ‘Manmarziyaan’ today, he (Kashyap) looks more and more like a mainstream film maker with a fine command of film technique, whose unique and original perspective has been merged, unobtrusively, into an amorphous entity called pop cinema.

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