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Boss
Yet another tribute to the escapist entertainers of yore? Ok then, this kind of lazy filmmaking deserves to be hit. With a scale.
Oct 2013
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Commando 3
Here’s yet another shamefully opportunistic film that plays on the bad Muslim-good Muslim divide.
Nov 2019
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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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Sanam Teri Kasam
Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru spin a modern, urban fairytale, albeit a gloomy, miserable one, which, in the name of being a woman-centric film, has one of the most feeble, helpless heroines seen in recent Hindi cinema...
Feb 2016
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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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Oct 2015
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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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Gunday
If only the director had the guts to channel all the sexual tension into a Brokeback Mountain-esque love story instead of this faux bromance. Unfortunately, the characters are completely in denial of this chemistry and stick to the unwritten rules of the System.
Feb 2014
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Housefull 3
Housefull 3’s brighter moments are owed to Akshay Kumar and fleetingly by Jackie Shroff – for the rest it’s all puerile silliness.
Jun 2016
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Haseena Parkar
Don’t go looking for a Shabana Azmi-like assured turn (in Godmother) from Kapoor. She is unable to rise above her age, despite trying to emote way too earnestly in some scenes.
Sep 2017
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Zanjeer
An unwarranted remake, this time it is the turn of the audience to turn angry!
Sep 2013
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All Is Well
...is the kind of film you want to show to that relative who assumes it’s easy to watch movies for a living.
Aug 2015
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Munna Michael
The makers may walk home with money, Shroff with more fame, but the audience will return with a message that you could get away anything as long as it is cloaked in song and dance.
Jul 2017
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Race 3
...I got in this family saga of globalised NRI goons is some stale taste of sheer inanity and randomness.
Jun 2018
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Jhootha Kahin Ka
...Kang can’t stop the humour turning loud and crass with double entendre slipping in, specially when it comes to women. It’s not just the sexist jokes, here the women are rendered deliberately vapid and inconsequential...
Jul 2019
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Blood Money
A sincere Kunal Khemu aside, this is a cheesy, predictable, over-the-top adult-rated modern-day adaptation of Hansel and Gretel.
Apr 2012
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Oct 2012
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Mahabharat
Mahabharat deserves a liberal reading but apart from Karna’s episode Amaan has remained true to the traditional rendering of the epic and there is hardly any effort to delve into the moral dilemmas of the characters.
Dec 2013
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Love Games
...is a C Grade film trying hard to be cool (pitches itself as urban-thriller) making it worse for itself.
Apr 2016
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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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Alone
Bipasha Basu, however, has become the Bhai of the horror film genre, minus the box office appeal, of course. You can easily switch scenes between her films and nobody would even know. They all have Bipasha doing exactly the same thing.
Jan 2015
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Bhoomi
Sanjay Dutt hasn’t lost his acting chops yet, rather seems to be maturing well. But why did he have to pick up a film this regressive for a return?
Sep 2017
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Nanu Ki Jaanu
To be fair, silliness, if done with aplomb, can be sublime fun at times. Nanu Ki Jaanu is none of it, only laughable.
Apr 2018
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May 2019
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Creature
...a kind of kindergarten for the seekers of chills and frills that feeds on the appetite of the galleries for shock and sleaze.
Sep 2014
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Coffee With D
Sending up the media? Spoofing the underworld? Whatever it is that the filmmaker wants to do, it just doesn’t spark any interest in the viewer.
Jan 2017