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Jul 2011
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Zero
On the level of cinematic realism, the plot of ‘Zero’ is plainly batshit crazy. But the film has an enthralling visual display, has a few short and gripping star turns, and throws up some fascinating analogues.
Dec 2018
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Zed Plus
Even though its narrative is predictable, this film is a well performed political satire.
Dec 2014
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Yeh Saali Aashiqui
The performances in the film are passable, but so blatant is the docketing of a new found creed, that it turns the film into a didactic bore.
Dec 2019
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
A film as rootless and rife with loose ends as the pretty people in it.
Jun 2013
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Jun 2013
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Yamla Pagla Deewana 2
To enjoy the peculiarly Punjabi flavour of this film, you have to let go of little things like inhibitions.
Jan 2011
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X: Past is Present
Too many cooks in the kitchen end up serving an experimental disaster.
Dec 2015
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Why Cheat India
So though it derails itself in the last quarter of its duration, the film, by that time, has asked a few hard questions of the more obvious flaws in a higher education apparatus that relies on skills of rote learning, for both entrance and graduation.
Jan 2019
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Welcome Back
This inane comedy’s tapori accents, ridiculous lines and weak casting make you cringe.
Sep 2015
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Welcome 2 Karachi
Riddled with clichés posing as jokes, this comedy of a dumb duo is hard to watch.
Aug 2015
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Welcome 2 Karachi
...does not find resonance in the context of Indian nuclear families.
Sep 2010
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Vicky Donor
This film has a sense of humour that cuts across class and cerebral levels.
Apr 2012
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Uri
Though a watchable film, ‘URI: The Surgical Strike’, is too much a work of pre-election propaganda.
Jan 2019
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Ujda Chaman
...does fall prey to a few rom-com cliches in the middle. But it perks up later on, and treats us to some delightfully well played and resonant scenes between the lead actors, sequences that bring a measure of proportionality to the film.
Nov 2019
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Udta Punjab
So we applaud the film for its good intentions. But as drama, the movie is written and designed too predictably.
Jun 2016
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Trapped
...is a disappointing film from a good director. What surprises you is the mismatch between a subject and the natural style of Vikramaditya Motwane.
Mar 2017
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Total Dhamaal
...the movie plays to the gallery by placing each set of characters in preposterous and farcical gags. The sheer ludicrousness of the set-ups - involving air, land and water transport - gets a few laughs.
Feb 2019
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The Xpose
A lousy script, poor direction and pretentious settings render this movie a letdown.
May 2014
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The Tashkent Files
A cloud of misinformation and disinformation is suspended in the atmospherics of this movie. It is not a film worth seeing.
Apr 2019
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Sep 2013
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Dec 2012
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The Body
...must easily rank as the dullest film Emraan Hashmi, otherwise a lively actor, has ever acted in.
Dec 2019
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Mar 2013
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Mar 2020
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Thackeray
There is no doubt that the film is speaking to the converted. But what is interesting in the movie is the question of the how and why of cinema being used to preserve distinct political constituencies by so many parties and ideologies. Especially, at this juncture of our history.
Jan 2019