An archive of Hindi movie reviews and ratings from 2010 to 2020.

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  • This is one of the best Hindi films of the year.

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  • It is overpopulated with numbers, dates and facts and suddenly introduces relatives of the protagonists who have stories of their own. It’s death by information.

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  • ...totally worth your time.

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  • If you are interested in knowing an intriguing and probing chapter from India's freedom struggle and have the required patience then Raag Desh is your ticket

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  • If this film feels slightly exhausting, even if exhilarating in parts, then that's because it is rather exhaustive in its exposition of facts. History fiends should jump at it right away.

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  • ...is not a superlative film, particularly because of its treatment, editing and lack of a novel story. But what it excels at is brushing the dust off a forgotten chapter of the history textbooks in a way that we can revisit it, with equal amounts of pride and gratitude.

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  • ...this film shows us a facet of freedom struggle not well known and is a great attempt at bringing history alive.

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  • ...recreates an important chapter of Indian history. Best part is, it does so with great detail and authenticity.

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  • A war movie, a relatively lesser known independence story, a court room drama. An intense story yet not an 100% immersive experience.

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  • ...blends details drawn from extensive research and some amount of fiction to rustle up a narrative that has enough drama to keep the audience engaged through its run time of two and a quarter hours.

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  • If you plan to watch it, do not go looking for Border or LOC Kargil. This one is more akin to Sankalp Reddy’s Telugu/Hindi The Ghazi Attack (2017), albeit even more under-played and also less swish on the production front. Raag Desh is a docu-drama, not a high-pitched weepie.

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  • ...is an average film with an untold factual story. The film could have been much better plus in the era of commercial films, Raag Desh is a niche in its own genre.

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  • This one has a compelling story that allows one to look beyond semantics but half-heartedly fleshed out parallel tracks and jump cuts between the courtroom and the war zone, become much to bear.

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  • ...the tension, excitement and exhilaration in a story so potent is diluted by a choppy narrative that is reminiscent of a soporific history class.

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  • ...doesn’t meet the requirements of the historical epic in terms of its production values, but it does match the genre’s basic requirement: the only reason to travel back into the past is to ponder about the present.

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  • ...has lofty ambition, but the stagey treatment lets it down.

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  • ...a highly verbose and untidy production.

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