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Calendar Girls
Critic reviews and ratings
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...can be watched for its wholesome entertainment value, hard hitting drama and engaging narrative.
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He has his trademark touches of glamour, pathos and personalities but lacks power-packed acting to hold this together.
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...does not offer anything new content wise...
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The script despite all its crassness, unimaginative situations, clichés and easy flights of fancy, does keep one hooked with constant drama and is far better than Bhandarkar’s last film, Heroine.
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...is more than a decent watch. It's takes a frivolous subject and weaves an engaging story around it.
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What worked for Bhandarkar in 2005 in 'Page 3' can obviously not work in 2015 because he is unimaginatively and rather cockily serving us the same dish in a different plate.
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The narration, bland and plain dialogues and bad acting (save for one or two actors), however, kills the experience.
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Starts off and continues with awful dubbing, follows up with mostly awful acting, fills up with reinforcing stereotypes and finishes up with predictable story-telling.
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About 10 years dated, the excitement that bikini models in uncomfortable positions drew once, feels a bit misplaced today.
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...the film’s biggest flaw is that it fails to surprise the audience making the entire experience dull.
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Low on surprises, shoddily made and poorly acted, this latest expose indicates that its filmmaker is running on empty.
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While Madhur Bhandarkar tries washing away the grease paint off the glamour industry, he desperately seems to be recycling the content from his previous films, thus offering nothing new to his audience.
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A hurried after-thought, which talks of how these girls are really, truly ‘proud achievers’, comes right in the end. And it’s just that, an after-thought. The rest of it exploits—smugly, tackily, uncomfortably explicitly—young women being exploited.
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Slapdash and sanctimonious, Calendar Girls is a stunner, but for all the wrong reasons. It is stunning in its sheer stupidity.
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...is Madhur Bhandarkar's weakest attempt at trying to revisit his old formula and create something interesting.
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National-award winning director Madhur Bhandarkar makes a film about how these girls are exploited in the glamour world, while making sure his film exploits them as well. Talk about ironies.
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The two piece advice is stay away!
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Lazy, simplistic and contrived, this tacky film has nothing even vaguely meaningful to say.
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...a ‘Madhur Bhandarkar-type film’ is one the worst things you could call a young filmmaker’s work. And yet, the man himself perseveres.
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No new insights. No new perspective. And plain tacky.
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...in all respects, is root-canal painful.
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Every Madhur Bhandarkar film feels the same - it’s the same storyline, the same plot points. The only things that change are the industry and the characters’ names.
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Move on Madhur, films like Heroine and Calender Girls don't work, not if you have no insight and intelligence to flesh it out.
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Take the name off the poster and it's hard to believe this film has been made by someone who makes films.
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