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Wazir
Bad films only leave a bad taste in your mouth. But films like Wazir that had great potential upset your stomach.
Jan 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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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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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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Mar 2017
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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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The Xpose
It is presented neither as fantasy nor as pulp which could have been a better treatment idea for this. The stench of the cesspit here is ineffable.
May 2014
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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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Mar 2016
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May 2015
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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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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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May 2017
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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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Rustom
...reduces a high profile case that's ripe for extracting drama into a fancy dress walkabout.
Aug 2016
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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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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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May 2015
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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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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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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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Feb 2018
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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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Neerja
After Airlift, we have another director’s film this year and this one is even better.
Feb 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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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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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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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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Ki & Ka
A large part of Ki & Ka in fact resembles something that's been long overcooking inside Chetan Bhagat's head.
Apr 2016
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Katti Batti
Only this film about a malformed man-child had a chance if it was a coming of age story. But here only we age as the film stutters to its end.
Sep 2015