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Bajrangi Bhaijaan
An extraordinarily eloquent film that has Salman Khan playing a worthy role instead of burnishing his brand image as an action hero.
Jul 2015
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Gangs Of Wasseypur
A startingly original film with entertaining conversations and settings.
Jul 2012
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Piku
Should you want your mind to be broadened by a road movie that gives you an excremental vision of life, Piku is the one to watch.
May 2015
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May 2015
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Aligarh
A touching portrayal of sexuality beyond straitjacketed labels, this film is a complete triumph.
Mar 2016
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Gangs Of Wasseypur 2
Rarely, if ever, as in this epic, has Hindi cinema transported you to a world that is real and surreal at the same time.
Aug 2012
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Finding Fanny
With its truthful depiction of individual foibles and local Goan charm, this film is a winner.
Sep 2014
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Haider
Wrought with great intellectual and technical finesse, this film is pure poetry in motion
Oct 2014
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Shanghai
The plot is implausible but the superb acting and understated tone make it eminently watchable.
Jun 2012
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Lakshmi
...says nothing new, but stuns you into silence with its emotional and intellectual clarity.
Apr 2014
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Chalk N Duster
A moving film about teachers that could have done without its melodramatic scenes.
Jan 2016
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Band Baaja Baaraat
...gets the sound of go-getting Dilli pitch-perfect but slips up on the romance front.
Dec 2010
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Dedh Ishqiya
...makes excellent use of an old genre in Hindi cinema. The ‘muslim social’ was dead and buried by the early 90s, but it is suddenly and most entertainingly revived here...
Jan 2014
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Gully Boy
...is a refreshingly different film on a subject not normally trodden by mainstream cinema.
Feb 2019
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Pati Patni Aur Woh
...this movie is a hoot, and keeps you entertained, and amused, through most of its duration.
Dec 2019
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Airlift
This is not an accurate portrayal of the Kuwait evacuation, but worth a watch all the same.
Jan 2016
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Budhia Singh
...he director’s inclination to present young Budhia Singh (Mayur Patole) more as a victim than a hero, turns this movie into a reasonably good watch.
Aug 2016
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Miss Lovely
A masterly noirish re-creation of C-grade smut that takes a hard look at exploitation in cinema.
Jan 2014
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Sulemani Keeda
Sincere and touching in parts, this film could have soared with a stronger screenplay.
Dec 2014
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Talvar
This is an engagingly written and well made film that draws you in and keeps you watching.
Oct 2015
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Parched
...is a nice looking film that is reasonably well acted, but it is too self consciously written and visualized to be credible, as intended, for an argument on the empowerment of women in rural Rajasthan.
Sep 2016
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Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
The casting, the art direction and the cinematography of the film is painstakingly done and evokes admiration. The disastrous pacing, however, lets it down badly.
Apr 2015
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Saala Khadoos
A deglamorised portrayal of boxing lends this film a touch of authenticity.
Feb 2016
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Masaan
Even though a Benaras in transition comes alive in this film, it isn’t all that emotionally wrenching.
Aug 2015
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Mar 2012
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Sonchiriya
Though not as impactful, dramatically, as other socio-politically inclined bandit movies in its genre, ‘Sonchiriya’ is cinematically well crafted.
Mar 2019
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Margarita With A Straw
...a brave film that tells us that physical disability and sexual desire are two different things, neither of which can be slapped with labels like ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’.
Apr 2015
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Kick
With some mildly thrilling sequences and Salman Khan as superhero, this film will find its takers.
Jul 2014
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Drishyam
Not a very subtle film even if reasonably entertaining, Drishyam does ask a few questions of the current criminal justice system.
Aug 2015