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

publication

Deccan Chronicle

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Number of reviews
491
Average rating
48

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  • Hawaa Hawaai

    When the story is predictable, a tight script and screenplay needs to take charge. Sadly, it doesn’t. The film’s undoing is the expectations it rides on. This one fails to be an Amole Gupte film.

    39

    May 2014
  • Bhoothnath Returns

    ...tries to strike a high moral tone in its social messaging, but creatively it doesn’t flinch from being crassly exploitative. It made me cringe so often that I wished this clever concept had been handed over to a directoir with a light touch.

    49

    Apr 2014
  • Jal

    ...it takes occasional flight, like a good, compelling dastan. But the film has an intermittently sparse and jam-packed screenplay

    49

    Apr 2014
  • Main Tera Hero

    Keeping things largely distanced from logic, David clearly plays to his strengths. He knows nobody comes looking for any semblance of realism in his films. So he keeps it shamelessly mindless and there is nothing wrong with that.

    59

    Apr 2014
  • Youngistaan

    ...thanks to a good script, well-paced screenplay and author-backed performances from appropriately cast actors, Youngistaan makes itself a watchable fare.

    59

    Mar 2014
  • Dishkiyaoon

    Bollywood has two types of films: the intelligent ones and those clichéd “leave-brains-at-home” ones. Dishkiyaaon is a pathbreaker. For we life-loving people, it’s the “bring a noose to the theatre” variety.

    09

    Mar 2014
  • Gulaab Gang

    Visually the film is seductive – pink saris in sepia dehaat — but its message is scary. While I had severe problems with its glorification of vigilante justice, there were a few moments when I was both thrilled and moved.

    49

    Mar 2014
  • Highway

    With all its pros and cons, here’s one of those films: ponderous enough to encourage a snooze but also with its rewarding side-effects. Needless to emphasise, Veera lingers on in the memory. And Alia Bhatt’s performance is nothing short of extraordinary, especially her solo stanzas of dialogue, executed in long takes.

    59

    Feb 2014
  • Jai Ho

    All said and endured, here’s the sort of average product which is immune to criticism. Say anything you honestly feel, down the decades it has been huffed – so what? That doesn’t make a jot of a difference.

    39

    Jan 2014
  • Miss Lovely

    The titillation sought to be vended in Ashim Aluhwalia’s 'Miss Lovely' is strictly of the smirk-smirk variety, suffused with abstractions, cynicism and distractions, great for the international film festival circuit but so off-the-mark and shallow for anyone who has had a smidgen of interest in the C-graders of yore...

    39

    Jan 2014
  • Dhoom 3

    is like a firmament lit up with those old, yellow, 120-watt bulbs, and Aamir Khan a 14 watt CFL bulb. Weak and struggling, he sticks out.

    19

    Dec 2013
  • R... Rajkumar

    Prabhu Dheva’s films are infantile fantasies that seek to gratify the fragile male ego and libido. Any further analysis of this imbecility would be a waste of time.

    29

    Dec 2013