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Khamoshiyan
Even if you have an extremely active imagination and are lily-livered, it's difficult to feel any fear while watching Khamoshiyan. Everything is absurdly fake.
Jan 2015
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Hawaizaada
The awkward tone of the movie makes you wonder whom it was made for. There’s too much romance and too little adventure for children, and it’s too foolish for adults.
Jan 2015
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Shamitabh
...despite the flawed writing, Dhanush and Bachchan make Shamitabh a pleasant enough outing to the movies.
Feb 2015
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MSG
Why the film faced any ban is a mystery. You can laugh with the movie, and more so at the movie. It’s a win win.
Feb 2015
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Roy
...the latest entrant in the gigantic pantheon of movies featuring style over substance.
Feb 2015
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Badlapur
...feels vaguely familiar because the aesthetic and storytelling are so heavily inspired by modern Korean noir, in which everyday people reveal themselves to be capable of extraordinary cruelty. What Badlapur lacks, however, is their tautness.
Feb 2015
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Dum Laga Ke Haisha
This is as crowd-pleasing as a film gets, only without mawkish manipulation or contrivances. It’s also the best Yash Raj film in a very long time.
Feb 2015
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Feb 2015
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NH10
A thoroughly average idea and a flawed script add up to a gripping experience, thanks to Singh's direction, Merchant's editing and Sharma's acting.
Mar 2015
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Hunterrr
Ladies, Hunterrr is a nightmare and gentlemen, this is not a date movie. No sensible woman is going to feel kindly towards Indian men after Hunterrr.
Mar 2015
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Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
...is slow and lacks tension, which is criminal for a thriller. The lazy and inept editing makes the entire film suffer and exposes the weaknesses in Banerjee's story.
Apr 2015
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Apr 2015
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Ek Paheli Leela
It’s been sold to tongue-wagging consumers as a historical sex drama, with a thrilling reincarnation twist. What Ek Paheli Leela actually is may cause some shock – it is soft porn, only without the porn.
Apr 2015
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Margarita With A Straw
...has many sweet and heartwarming moments, the film feels clumsy on the whole. Bose has packed too many issues into her script: being differently-abled, figuring out one's sexuality, queer relationships, sexual frustration, death.
Apr 2015
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Court
...comes closest to showing how an actual court functions. It captures the impact those undramatic courtrooms have on people who are unwittingly trapped in the labyrinth justice system.
Apr 2015
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Mr. X
If there was any doubt about Vikram Bhatt being the single most uninspiring filmmaker in the Hindi film industry, a single viewing of Mr X is enough to convince anyone to carve this sentiment in stone.
Apr 2015
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Jai Ho! Democracy
...the satire is not particularly nuanced, profound or even consistently funny, but it’s still impressive because the film is just wicked enough.
Apr 2015
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Piku
Writer Juhi Chaturvedi and director Shoojit Sircar have done what no one thought Bollywood had the gumption to do: they've made a film that's entirely unpredictable.
May 2015
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Bombay Velvet
...what Bombay Velvet lacks in complexity, it ultimately makes up for with its sheer beauty. And if you think about it, that more or less sums up the mainstream genre, so perhaps on his first attempt at a blockbuster, Kashyap is on the right track after all.
May 2015
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Tanu Weds Manu Returns
...is half a good movie, and half a dunderhead. If you consider both halves of this movie like a couple, then one of them surely needed to give some love and affection to the other before the fuse blew.
May 2015
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Welcome 2 Karachi
Director Ashish Mohan demonstrates with panache that stupid films are the cornerstone of fine art.
May 2015
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Welcome 2 Karachi
...this package defeats the purpose of its own existence, because none of the shorts are as memorable as you’d want them to be.
May 2015
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Dil Dhadakne Do
For better or for worse, Dil Dhadakne Do quickly reveals itself to be a hipster version of a Sooraj Barjatya film. It’s pretty but artificial, with a tissue-thin story told through flat characters played by gorgeous actors.
Jun 2015
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Hamari Adhuri Kahani
This is a journey of pain: the pain of watching the talented Balan struggling to justify a badly-written role; the pain of seeing the director of Arth stuck in a time warp and refusing to grow out of a poor-me syndrome; the pain of watching Bhatt kill the memorable Kahaani girl of Ooh La La land with the that mighty Indian weapon: the mangalsutra.
Jun 2015
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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2
ABCD 2’s many and needlessly frequent dance sequences make it less of a film and more of a bunch of loosely-strung music videos that can’t tell a compelling story.
Jun 2015
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Jun 2015
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Bahubali
Director SS Rajamouli has done some remarkable things with this monumental film...
Jul 2015
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I Love NY
It's shoddily shot, terribly dubbed and saddled with an absolutely rubbish screenplay.
Jul 2015