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Zila Ghaziabad
This is Gangs of Wasseypur-lite, retrofitted onto a Dabangg template, and without either’s strong points.
Feb 2013
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Kai Po Che!
...seems to have been made with much passion and dedication, and its intentions override its shortcomings. Casting, cinematography and music – and not the boys – are the film’s three heroes.
Feb 2013
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Special 26
...the few hiccups aside, the movie works primarily due to Pandey’s ability to draw in the viewer with witty writing and interesting character interactions.
Feb 2013
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David
...given that David had the potential to be three great films in one. Instead, it ends up being only half of what it promised.
Feb 2013
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Listen... Amaya
Too often, it feels like the film is straining for hipness, with its coffee table books and jogging and touristy Delhi locales like Khan Market and Chandni Chowk. All of which are at odds with the three living, breathing characters at its centre.
Feb 2013
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AkaashVani
The ending is straight out of a TV serial, though Bharucha salvages enough from it to mark her as someone worth keeping an eye on.
Jan 2013
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Race 2
...is the kind of film you wish for your worst enemy to watch on a Saturday night at the most expensive multiplex ticket available. Unlike the first part of the franchise, though, it’s not even one of those guilty pleasure films that act as accompaniment on a drunken night with friends. Even as a terribly bad film, Race 2 is a disappointment.
Jan 2013
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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
Fans of Bhardwaj, meanwhile, will be happy he’s back filling the screen with life and colour after the strangely acrid 7 Khoon Maaf last year.
Jan 2013
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Table No. 21
Bhatt initially keeps the audience engaged with a quick pace and amusing vignettes such as a machine which measures the decibel levels of a slap. But he loses his grip in the second half, especially as the audience is able to put together the clues and predict the game’s end.
Jan 2013
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Rajdhani Express
Rajdhani Express derails long before it reaches its final destination. It leaves viewers with many perplexing questions and no definite answers.
Jan 2013
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Jan 2013
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Dec 2012
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Khiladi 786
Ashish R Mohan, making his directorial debut here after assisting Rohit Shetty on the Golmaal series, pops the Dabangg/Singham/Son of Sardar template into the microwave, lets it heat for a bit and serves it up to a public that seemingly can’t get enough of silly action comedies.
Dec 2012
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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
We’d rather not point out more flaws in Yash Chopra’s swansong. Instead, let’s celebrate what has been a singularly important career.
Nov 2012
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Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana
The film’s resolution of its characters’ dilemmas tends to be a bit disingenuous, but Sharma has a knack – again, befitting someone who worked on DDLJ – for the sweetly engineered plot twist.
Nov 2012
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Student Of The Year
...is a debutantes’ ball which prolongs the inevitable and where there is little fun to be had.
Oct 2012
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Heroine
The saving grace of this film is Kapoor, who holds her own despite an inept screenplay that is keen to sensationalize rather than empathize for the protagonist.
Sep 2012
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Raaz 3
Vikram Bhatt, the current caretaker of Ramsay’s camp horror legacy, employs the tried- and-tested formulae: translucent white curtains blow, doors creak, untraceable husky voices deliver threats, all of which never quite draw out a scream.
Sep 2012
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Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi
The movie could have risen to become a nuanced drama about a couple in their forties, struggling to balance between their familial responsibilities and matters of heart. Instead we get a hokey love story that never quite beguiles or tickles.
Sep 2012
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Delhi In A Day
...this film reminded us of being called up in front of a classroom. You know you’ve done something wrong, but it’s not a pleasant experience.
Aug 2012
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Gangs Of Wasseypur 2
The movie is as much heartless fun as the first, but it will also hopefully be the last word in the romanticisation of mofussil chic that has come to characterise a section of Hindi cinema.
Aug 2012
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Aug 2012
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Maximum
Somewhere in the 90 minutes is a story that tells us nothing new or fascinating about the nexus between the cops and the underworld.
Jul 2012
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Ferrari Ki Sawaari
Mapuskar directs his actors with confidence and boldly shoots the films in real locations, but the movie needed to have been crisper and quicker, more Ferrari than Ambassador.
Jun 2012
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Jun 2012
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Department
...the movie is a self-consciously parodic version of the cops-and-gangster genre that Varma has mined successfully in the past as a director and producer.
May 2012
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May 2012
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Agent Vinod
...several shades lighter than Raghavan’s previous crime thrillers, Ek Hasina Thi and Johnny Gaddaar.
Mar 2012