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Tevar
Critic reviews and ratings
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...the story doesn't have anything new to offer, but the wonderful performances, energetic music score, stupendous action and the fact that it's a clean entertainer makes it a fun watch.
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Amit makes a smooth progression from 30-second commercials to a 159-minute-long film.
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Watch it if you miss those old '80s masala no-brainers...
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...this week's exercise in bone-crunching and item numbers, is one of those latter films, the kind that would've been better off without aiming for crowd-pleasing tactics.
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Of course 'Tevar' has every ingredient a Bollywood masala film requires but it is heavily marred by its predictability.
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This movie could have worked if it would have been released in the 90’s but now the plot seems a little off-track.
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Sharma is a genuine filmmaker. His scenes are artfully lit, staged, populated with extras – he makes a masala movie as if he’s making something loftier, worthier, and Tevar is the better for it.
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...a film that is more fizzle than sizzle, with too much gratuitous violence marring the broth.
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...there's not a moment that isn't formula-driven, which is why Sharma fails to stamp any kind of storytelling authority.
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Typical action masala. That's all there is to say about it.
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...pure and unapologetic commercial cinema served on a glossy platter.
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...an exhausting film.
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...there are loopholes and creative licence is exploited but it is good fun on the run till it enters its final lap. After experimenting with the template, Amit suddenly runs out of ideas and decides to sum it up in conventional fashion.
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Old and tired storytelling in a slick new package.
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...tiring, predictable, and largely banal.
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There isn’t much to take home from this film’s cut-and-dried plot except one man’s performance.
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Despite its occasional flourishes and a basic competence of craft, you end up taking very little back home.
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Same old biff bang thud, covered by blood, bones and mud.
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The film is a remake of a Telugu hit Okkadu (2003). It does seem that South Indian cinema has moved on and is exploring some wildly interesting stories, while Bollywood is perplexingly keen on retracting steps. This has to stop.
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A number of tropes in this script, for instance the damsel in distress who whimpers and then falls hopelessly in love with her knight in shining armour, are, like this film, conservative and well past their sell-by date.
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...another run of the mill story which has nothing new to offer. It very proudly carries forward the flag hoisted by Dabanggs and Singhams, only with less fanfare.
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Arjun Kapoor does try but is too young to pull this off and definitely not ready to hold a solid hero oriented like this.
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...your average Bollywood masala movie which lacks imagination.
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...a tiring slog, devoid of personality, riding unfairly on the shoulders of a young lad.
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...he (Arjun Kapoor) is yet to develop the charisma that sometimes enables stars to rise above poor writing and incompetent direction.
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