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Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
The first film was a promise that good comedy is probably returning to Bollywood after decades. Then it regressed to a place of discomfiting familiarity. Not even a 90s earworm and Jimmy Shergill can save it.
Aug 2018
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Aug 2018
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Dhadak
Dhadak, with the help of Shashank Khaitan and Karan Johar, rips apart Sairat’s soul.
Jul 2018
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Soorma
Here is one of the best stories celebrating will, talent and love for the game. But did you do it against Pakistan? No? Please close the door on your way out. Next candidate please.
Jul 2018
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Sanju
While the subject is starkly different, Hirani's sticks to the treatment that comes naturally to him. This is a film that is intensely Bollywood and in love with the industry, the approach is a strange concoction of melodrama, parody and comedy.
Jun 2018
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102 Not Out
...is hopelessly in love with the old school, and while that is not always a bad thing, it is also written in unimaginative, derivative ways.
May 2018
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Daas Dev
Sudhir Mishra’s latest film has a title that wants to scream at you its creativity — or lack thereof — but ends up with an indiscernible, squeaked out nonsense.
Apr 2018
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Baaghi 2
For a film with a tag line screaming "Rebel for Love", there is very little rebelling. There is very little action too.
Mar 2018
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Dil Juunglee
At every turn, Dil Juunglee (written by Tonoya Sen Sharma and Shiv Singh) teases you that now it will change into some other film, but it is relentless in its mission to disappoint.
Mar 2018
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Aiyaary
Almost every Pandey film has had a kinetic energy that never decelerates, but Aiyaary is a different breed. It doesn’t know what it wants to be.
Feb 2018
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Feb 2018
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Mukkabaaz
It may appear as a sports film, a boxing film, but Mukkabaaz really is an intense relationship drama, a romance — almost a quasi-Romeo-Juliet — that will not bow down to disability or politics or caste.
Jan 2018
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Tera Intezaar
Tera Intezaar also shows photographs and tells us that they are paintings. But why is that a surprise? They just used a camera, threw in some money, and called it a movie.
Dec 2017
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Julie 2
...seems too shy to even titillate. Julie 2, in fact, is too shy to be anything. A piece of cinema. An absorbing story of an actress.
Nov 2017
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Tubelight
...feels inconsequential at every step and we are also forced to brave what is possibly Salman’s worst performance in recent times.
Jun 2017
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Half Girlfriend
Mohit Suri is not a bad filmmaker, but some of his decisions here are confounding.
May 2017
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May 2017
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Noor
A compelling micro story about a single character loses its essence by trying to be a macro story about Mumbai, journalism and other words thrown at you with sincerity reserved for banal platitudes.
Apr 2017
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Begum Jaan
There is nothing even Vidya Balan can do to make things interesting here when that happens. And we never get to know enough about the characters to identify with their sense of loss and longing.
Apr 2017
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Phillauri
...definitely deserved a better director. Scenes take too long to get to their logical end. A lot about ones like or dislike of Phillauri may depend on how much one is willing to buy into Dutt's two narratives, bad graphics notwithstanding.
Mar 2017
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Mar 2017
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Machine
There is bad. There is awful. And then there is a film where your eyeballs are behind your eyebrows threatening to launch from top of your head like it's Cape Canaveral.
Mar 2017
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Badrinath Ki Dulhania
...is not entirely a misfire. It works to a great extent and its ideas and attempts are noble even if the film as a whole is flawed.
Mar 2017
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Commando 2
Very little thought seems to have gone into Commando 2 in every facet which is commendable because at least that makes it consistent with the idea and execution of demonetization.
Mar 2017
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Irada
...a haphazardly put together incoherent film that makes you wonder about issue based films and how they are made in our country.
Feb 2017
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Running Shaadi
...Running Shaadi's unevenness doesn't allow it to become more than the sum of its parts.
Feb 2017
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Haraamkhor
Haraamkhor is Siddiqui's film. We watch it for him. We watch it for what he can do and what more he is capable of.
Jan 2017
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Befikre
Unfortunately, it is Aditya’s stories that cannot shape shift to fit into post — Dil Chahta Hai, post-Imtiaz Ali, post-Shakun Batra grammar of Bollywood.
Dec 2016
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Mirzya
Mehra is at odds handling a compelling romance that we know in our head but does not always translate in a similar way on screen.
Oct 2016