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Dec 2014
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Zed Plus
Dwivedi is best known for the mega-teleserial Chanakya and the National Award-winning film Pinjar. Despite some rough patches, Zed Plus is a worthy addition to that formidable CV.
Nov 2014
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Happy Ending
...is sadly not as wacky as it could have been, but it’s genuinely funny and unobjectionable, which makes it easy to forgive the film its many shortcomings.
Nov 2014
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Kill Dil
If Shaad had summoned up half as much passion for this project as Ranveer and Parineeti expend on it, Kill/Dil would not have felt like the listless, criminal waste of amazing resources that it is.
Nov 2014
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Happy New Year
Team Farah-Shah Rukh are capable of much better in the over-the-top genre that they favour together. Happy New Year is a step down from Om Shanti Om, but if you enjoy boisterous entertainment that is still not entirely mindless, it’s worth a visit.
Oct 2014
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Oct 2014
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Haider
...a stirring, unsettling tale that needs not just to be watched, but to be experienced.
Oct 2014
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Sep 2014
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Sep 2014
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Daawat-e-Ishq
...is the most irresponsible film to emerge from mainstream Bollywood this year. No, Habib Faisal, it’s not okay to trivialise issues as serious as dowry
Sep 2014
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Sep 2014
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Finding Fanny
Clearly the film is aiming at whimsy, a quality so smoothly achieved in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel that was recently in Indian theatres. Finding Fanny doesn’t have enough substance to achieve its goal though.
Sep 2014
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Mary Kom
Despite some major grouses with the film, I’ve come away from the theatre admiring Mary Kom and being a little in love with Onler. Mission accomplished, Omung Kumar.
Sep 2014
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Mardaani
...strikes that delicate and hard-to-achieve balance between realism and entertainment. Very very nice, Mr Sarkar.
Aug 2014
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Aug 2014
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Entertainment
What else does one say of a film that makes Humshakals seem like it had substance and Kick seem cerebral in comparison? Nothing, I guess.
Aug 2014
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Jul 2014
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Jul 2014
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Pizza
I was scared witless in the first half of Pizza. The second half slows down, but it still had me hooked.
Jul 2014
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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
...is really funny in places, but it’s so insubstantial, unimaginative and regressive that that’s just not enough.
Jul 2014
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Ek Villain
Apart from a more consistent pace, Ek Villain also needed more detailing and more depth in its characterisation.
Jun 2014
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Humshakals
...is as flat as cola from a bottle that’s been left open for a year. Read that clearly please:
Jun 2014
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Fugly
...a well-intentioned film that suffers from weak direction, lack of focus and overly melodramatic, over-used music.
Jun 2014
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Holiday
The problem with Holiday is that the formulaic comedy and romance end up diluting the thriller that it is intended to be, while the entire film is weighed down by its senselessness.
Jun 2014
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Heropanti
Heropanti’s story is as half-baked as the means Tiger uses to attract attention to himself.
May 2014
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Kochadaiiyaan
You can’t assume that a film will be effective merely because it crosses a new frontier in technology and stars an acting legend. That, unfortunately, is what debutant director Soundarya Rajinikanth Ashwin has done...
May 2014