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Judgemental Hai Kya
So apart from the occasionally engaging antics of Kangana Ranaut in the lead role, the film ends up with little educative or entertainment value. This movie has a good cast, but ultimately disappoints.
Jul 2019
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Tees Maar Khan
Parody of the medium is legitimate, but when it substitutes for content, you have to ask-is the mind of the maker no more than a blank slate?
Dec 2010
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Inkaar
If only he had good performers, Sudhir Mishra’s formulaic narrative might have worked.
Jan 2013
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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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Dec 2019
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Bhoothnath Returns
Bachchan and the kid pull off some funny scenes, but then it gets all preachy on us.
Apr 2014
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Ittefaq
In truth, it is not much of a murder mystery, since you can predict the end by estimating the running time of the movie. When conclusive evidence is found to nail one of the suspects, and it seems to be all over bar the conviction, there is still 15 minutes to go.
Nov 2017
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Feb 2020
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Dabangg
Unlike a typical Salman Khan movie, this has got a plot, a well-behaved hero, and even a script.
Sep 2010
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Aarakshan
Since the movie looks to create consent, it deliberately avoids litigious or divisive aspects of the issue.
Aug 2011
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B.A. Pass
So despite a fairly compact 95 minutes, the movie has a sense of incompleteness, with the inner life of the most interesting character ignored.
Aug 2013
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Hate Story 2
A cut-and-dried execution of a good concept renders this film an insipid watch.
Jul 2014
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Aug 2016
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Andhadhun
...a thriller with not a single scary moment. ‘Andhadhun’ is wonderfully mounted, nicely cast and beautifully art directed, but not once do you grip your seat, sit back in horror, or cover your eyes.
Oct 2018
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Jan 2011
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Feb 2013
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Tevar
There isn’t much to take home from this film’s cut-and-dried plot except one man’s performance.
Jan 2015
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Jazbaa
With a paper-thin plot about a kidnapped child, this movie is pretty directionless.
Oct 2015
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Banjo
...is a sincere and well intentioned film that has some watchable sequences, but fails eventually, as the sum of its parts just don't add up.
Sep 2016
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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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Dum Maaro Dum
...is chipped china, but in the context of recent Hindi movies, at least you are drinking from crockery.
Apr 2011
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Bol Bachchan
If you lower your taste several notches, you might find this slapstick film funny.
Jul 2012
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Jun 2013
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Revolver Rani
A biting satire of political and media skullduggery that slides into B-movie parody mode.
May 2014
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Ghayal Once Again
This movie is set in the Mumbai of today, but has an attitude that is frozen in time.
Feb 2016
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Kaalakaandi
The film is funny in specific contexts, but, overall, the interlinked stories pass no real comment on the quality of life in this heterogenous metropolis. The movie drifts along nicely, until you get a little tired, and wish that it all leads to a quick and rousing conclusion.
Jan 2018
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De De Pyaar De
...does have a few funny moments, but its lens is locked at the fixed perspective of the entertainment that can be milked from the classic older man syndrome. In truth it is a movie without a modicum of the intelligence and sensitivity required to treat the subject seriously, and so, maybe, it is a good thing that it didn’t.
May 2019
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Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan
This is an amusing film, in parts, but it is not, by any stretch of imagination, a ground breaking work on Gay love.
Feb 2020
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Aiyyaa
Writer-director Sachin Kundalkar has no clue how to tie up the ends of the mad film he’s made.
Oct 2012