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Student Of The Year
...if you are game to accept St. Teresa as a new version of St. Xavier’s that Karan created 14 years ago, it is not a bad ride.
Oct 2012
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Oct 2012
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Aiyyaa
Wake up-um, makers... and smell the oothappam. This is not a plot-um that lends itself to be watched for this long-um.
Oct 2012
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English Vinglish
...delivers what it promises. You will fall in love with Sridevi all over again.
Oct 2012
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Heroine
The only realistic thing here is that Bollywood is as predictable as a Bhandarkar film.
Sep 2012
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Joker
As noble as the idea may have been, it required a filmmaker with more sensitivity and finesse.
Sep 2012
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Aug 2012
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Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi
...if you are willing to discount all that extra footage, you might actually end up rooting for Shirin, Farhad and their cutesy love story.
Aug 2012
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Ek Tha Tiger
...surprisingly director Kabir Khan has come up with a new recipe for the current Tiger of the box office. Kabir wants to put his stamp without stamping on Salman’s toes.
Aug 2012
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Gangs Of Wasseypur 2
You might wish it had a deeper emotional core or some meaning but Kashyap just wants to leave his fingerprints over every frame without judging who’s right and who’s wrong.
Aug 2012
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Jism - 2
This is the kind of film many will go to watch no matter how bad we say it is simply because this is the closest they get to see an adult star take her clothes off on the big screen in India.
Aug 2012
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Cocktail
...once you are done with gushing about the picturesque locales, the hollowness of the subject dawns on you and it is not a good feeling. All the gloss and sauce fail to make us feel for any of the characters because their transitions don’t pass muster.
Jul 2012
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Bol Bachchan
If you liked Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Golmaal, which you sure did, you would want to protest this assault on one of the effortlessly funny films of all time. Here, the effort shows in every scene.
Jul 2012
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Maximum
There are a couple of gripping moments but they come in too late, way after our interest in the film is long dead.
Jul 2012
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Teri Meri Kahaani
Long, laboured and pointless, Kohli fails to place his gorgeous actors in a credible story.
Jun 2012
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Gangs Of Wasseypur
All that coolth and pop realism may do well with the die hard Kashyap cult but for the rest of us who paid to watch a bloody saga of revenge, it seems like a long wait at the circus.
Jun 2012
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Shanghai
With not a single dull moment and every department in fine form, this is tour de force filmmaking. Simply one of the best and bravest films you will see this year.
Jun 2012
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Rowdy Rathore
The film wears the kitsch-as-entertainment badge on its heart to unleash the cheesiest, corniest and campiest of cliches.
Jun 2012
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Yeh Khula Aasmaan
The film unwinds at a lazy, sluggish pace which in itself wouldn't have been such a bad thing if it did create genuinely heart-warming moments without relying on melodrama or a sentimental overdose.
May 2012
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Love Wrinkle-free
...an edible experience for those who are bored of the routine menu at the box office!
May 2012
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Department
It's high time the filmmaker struggling with form realised that this nauseatingly gimmicky camerawork he has been afflicted with in his last few films distracts from the story.
May 2012
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Dangerous Ishhq
So long that a ticket to purgatory hell seems like the better bargain between the two.
May 2012
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Ishaqzaade
Writer-Director Habib Faisal succeeds to a great extent in crafting an unpredictable first half full of spunk and spirit, but plays it boringly safe in the second, offering no new solutions or fresh perspectives in a story that has been done to death.
May 2012
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Fatso
Using magical realism Kapoor deals with deep-seated human quandaries in a light-hearted fashion but ultimately fails to realise the potential of the subject.
May 2012
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Jannat 2
This is the kind of film that would have gone straight to video in Hollywood, made strictly for a niche audience of a niche film. So dont worry about missing this. Just a matter of time before they make it again as Jannat 3.
May 2012
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Tezz
Set out to make a thriller, Priyadarshan delivers an unintentional comedy which is neither sharp nor sensible.
Apr 2012
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Vicky Donor
Shoojit Sircar's Vicky Donor comes as a pleasant surprise - he deals with taboos combining hilarity and heart.
Apr 2012
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Hate Story
The film may give morality a Dam(n) but there has to be logic. Thanks to the jerky narrative, instead of empathising with the characters you start laughing at them.
Apr 2012