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Brothers
With its overworked plot devices, this slugfest has neither drama nor depth to offer.
Aug 2015
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Aug 2016
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Made In China
...is a film with potential. But like the placebo effect in ‘Tiger Magic Soup’, deceives to flatter.
Oct 2019
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Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji
Unlike a Bhandarkar movie, it has no memorable characters, no social commentary, and sadly, no big laughs either.
Feb 2011
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Apr 2012
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Mar 2013
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Shamitabh
A disappointing film despite Amitabh’s engaging performance and a decent story idea.
Feb 2015
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Shaandaar
An outlandish screenplay does nothing to save this shoddy lookalike of a Lewis Caroll classic.
Oct 2015
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Rangoon
...it is all the more startling to see what Bhardwaj does to the scenario that he so painstakingly creates in Rangoon. He ‘Bollywoodizes’ it; to a degree bordering on the absurd.
Feb 2017
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Mar 2019
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Jan 2020
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Ragini MMS
...a canny low-budget film with little art. But it appeals to a large cross-section.
May 2011
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D-Day
An action-packed film that doesn’t give the audience space to jeer at its implausible storyline.
Jul 2013
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Baaghi 2
...the film diverts us from the totally unconvincing dialogue delivery style of Tiger. It also establishes a right leaning ideological position that always works well with an action movie audience.
Mar 2018
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India‘s Most Wanted
This is a reasonably watchable film that, unfortunately, goes off the radar every now and then.
May 2019
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Kaamyaab
...is not interested in this discussion. For a movie that highlights the abysmal condition of smaller actors, sustained by audience nostalgia alone, it avoids speaking on the bigger picture.
Mar 2020
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Aakrosh
A shameless copy of a Hollywood film with a few good performances to hold it up
Oct 2010
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Force
If only the quality of John Abraham's performance matched the abs he had on display.
Oct 2011
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Mohenjo Daro
...the telling of the film is slow, long winded, pointless, and extraordinarily boring.
Aug 2016
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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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Blood Money
This film has all the elements of the Bhatt success formula, but in the wrong proportion.
Apr 2012
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Mar 2013
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Shaadi Ke Side Effects
This is not a film, it’s a recipe for a romcom. And a very middle-class one at that.
Mar 2014
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Roy
Elegantly shot but utterly incoherent, this ambitious film is an exercise in obfuscation.
Feb 2015
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Chhapaak
...the emotional resonance, moments of poignancy, that you expect from a Meghna Gulzar film, are missing. What is left is an uneven movie.
Jan 2020
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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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Bharat
...is no masterpiece, but it is that rare thing, a film that bonds a family with a nation, and does it with affection. Any element of divisiveness is excluded. And that, in itself, is a good enough reason to watch it.
Jun 2019
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Baaghi 3
Tiger has a sculpted and finely chiselled torso that turns his action sequences into a dance form. But when the content in the script becomes slimmer, and, inversely, the propaganda element in the movie increases, the hero begins to look like an empty vessel.
Mar 2020
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Oct 2011