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Madholal - Keep Walking
...executed amateurishly with poor camera work, jumps in edits, over-acting, that's all.
Aug 2010
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Aashayein
While the filmmakers figured their supposedly perfect setting out, a story didn't follow.
Aug 2010
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Lafangey Parindey
Such scatter-brained, mish-mash of a movie is only possible when the makers' eyeballs are trained at some sucker or the other the cinema's intended for, and not the soul of even a semblance of a script.
Aug 2010
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Aug 2010
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Aisha
The atmospherics is complete. The intentions aren’t off the mark. You may like to voyeuristically share a rich experience (with the film’s cast, or crew, in this case). You only wish this sense of outdoor adventure could conceal the blandness of the drama within.
Aug 2010
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Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai
The subject is immediately exhilarating still. As is this film.
Jul 2010
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Khatta Meetha
The jokes, you can tell, have pretty much dried up. No amount of slapstick will wet this pool.
Jul 2010
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Tere Bin Laden
That a film can so convincingly make light of an unbearable tragedy is its astounding comic achievement.
Jul 2010
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Lamhaa
It's not easy to make sense of Kashmir. It's harder still then to make sense of this film.
Jul 2010
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Red Alert
The movie, dull on drama, doesn’t take a stand. The backdrop is its only purpose, and doubles up for its skeletal plot.
Jul 2010
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Milenge Milenge
...while the film’s main pair may not be friends anymore...they can’t quite disown a new release that celebrates them still. Well. Sucks. I guess!
Jul 2010
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I Hate Luv Storys
...mush and popcorn for you in a hey-this-is-a-different package. It’s not a saga but it’s not blah either!
Jul 2010
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Krantiveer
Mental exhaustion is too minor a price to pay for this cutesy honesty. Come on, give it a shot. I dare you.
Jun 2010
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Raavan
This is that severely unexpected self-indulgence in a career of close to three decades, which digs out nothing but his own cinematic cliches.
Jun 2010
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Raajneeti
Just to let you in on a mental note I made smilingly stepping out of this film’s interval: “You so know it when you’re watching one of the most powerful Bollywood dramas ever!” I wish I could say that for the rest of the movie. Well. Halfway there then, I guess.
Jun 2010
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Kites
It’s a passionately romantic pic, or at least hyped as one in ways that few films can live up to. The expression of that intense love, its most important element, is often lost in translation - what many might rightly perceive as lack of chemistry between the leading pair.
May 2010
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Bumm Bumm Bole
The producers could’ve saved themselves all the effort and expenses, and just dubbed Children Of Heaven in Hindi instead.
May 2010
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It's a Wonderful Afterlife
You cringe in helplessness, to realise, this is just a sad B-movie, merely testing bounds of insanity, secretly hoping for a cult status.
May 2010
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Badmaash Company
The picture’s premise is strong. The setting is solid. The scam’s quite awesome. The friends make for quite a foursome. All are equally endearing. As are their antics. And then the screen flashes, Interval. Everything dopily goes down a slope thereafter, and onward to America, arrogance and all that jazz.
May 2010
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Housefull
Laughter is the subject; a laugh, being a subjective thing, of course. So, laughing gas is forced into the climax. Canned laughter should elicit even more collective laughs. You want to pause for breath. Your brains deserve a break.
May 2010
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City Of Gold
Never mind a generic trivialisation of an important mill workers’ issue, though that's disturbing enough. You’d imagine at least the family’s backdrop is essential to this plot. It isn’t.
Apr 2010
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Apartment
Accept soft-core pornography in Indian films, and you’ll get rid of poor apologies such as these that have to force in plots, since they can’t just make a semi-porn pic instead.
Apr 2010
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Paathshaala
Television can't look beyond a few devises to pass of as entertainment, or sometimes news. I suspect filmmakers can't look beyond the addictive television they watch all day to think up a plot either.
Apr 2010
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Prince
Quite obviously, moneybag-bizman Mr Taurani knows something about his audiences that we don’t!
Apr 2010
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Apr 2010
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The Japanese Wife
...is wonderfully shot, reasonably well enacted, and is sure enough, long (or slow) as hell. Such elements individually draw attention toward themselves because, quite frankly, the script sucks.
Apr 2010
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Apr 2010