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Mar 2017
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May 2015
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Neerja
After Airlift, we have another director’s film this year and this one is even better.
Feb 2016
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Feb 2016
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Traffic
The theme manoeuvring through Traffic is of empathy and second chance. It is sometimes subtle, other times shoved in your face.
May 2016
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Phobia
Nothing in Phobia exists without a reason and is a testimony to how intelligently made it is.
May 2016
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Airlift
...a triumph of the mainstream, a mainstream that gets sidelined in the critics’ circle either with a patronising tone or cynicism.
Jan 2016
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Parched
...is a microcosm censused that throws up dark results even if what we get is a funny, light film for the most part focusing on its women, their bonding and friendship.
Sep 2016
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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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M.S. Dhoni
What we get is all peaks and no valleys. An engaging but forgettable T20 instead of a memorable drama filled Test match.
Sep 2016
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Waiting
...may be funereal in the larger scheme of things but it is a joy to see two great actors in fine form playing characters that learn from each other.
May 2016
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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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Baby
What Baby may lack in originality, it makes up for it in authenticity. This Baby is very healthy.
Jan 2015
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Udta Punjab
One of the finest things about Udta Punjab is it doesn't wish to take any form of high ground. All it does is tell the story of four people in a land where drugs are a real problem. It neither glorifies nor offers moral science lessons.
Jun 2016
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Jugni
...turns out to be a well done short film padded up to be a feature. But it is still one of those unique efforts in this age of heroes because all the characters are delightfully flawed.
Jan 2016
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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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Drishyam
Kamat’s Drishyam is not necessarily a dumbed-down version. It’s a version that lacks the nuances that were aplenty in the writing of the Malayalam version.
Aug 2015
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Bajirao Mastani
Is there a filmmaker in Bollywood more relentless than Sanjay Leela Bhansali? Relentless in his choice of themes, palette, tone and mood.
Dec 2015
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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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Raman Raghav 2.0
The greatest thing that can be said about Raman Raghav 2.0 is that it is not a meaningless exercise in blood and violence. It is well thought out and has some great performances. But it also feels like it could have been fleshed out better.
Jun 2016
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Sultan
A little bit of imagination could have pulled Sultan to greater heights, even as it remains a genre exercise.
Jul 2016
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May 2015
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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May 2017