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Hamari Adhuri Kahani
Spectacularly sexist and spectacularly boring – that’s a lethal combination. It hurts to see Vidya in such a film.
Jun 2015
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Halkaa
This one sounds more like an ad advocating the use of toilets stretched to a 114-minutes-long feature and including some of the most blatant product placements ever seen on screen. It means well, but good intentions and a wide-eyed hero are just not enough.
Sep 2018
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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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Gurgaon
The film is a slow burn but make no mistake about it: the explosion is coming.
Aug 2017
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Gunday
This is not an unwatchable film. It’s simply unremarkable, inconsistent and unoriginal.
Feb 2014
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Gully Boy
For a film that is about protest music, the music of anger and rebellion, Gully Boy is surprisingly quiet and extremely funny. Its understatedness and sense of humour are among the multiple reasons why it is also one of the best films to emerge from the Hindi cinemascape in recent times.
Feb 2019
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Guddu Rangeela
For the most part then, Guddu Rangeela remains engaging because of the balancing act it achieves between its grim subject and its light touch.
Jul 2015
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Great Grand Masti
Calls itself an “adult comedy” but is really directed at hormonally charged teenaged boys with a limited IQ (not the bright ones) – check.
Jul 2016
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Grand Masti
The women of GM are never more than a sum of their breasts and buttocks. The men here have their entire beings centred around their penises.
Sep 2013
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Gold
...has its occasional redeeming moments, but for the most part it just skims the surface of a landscape once examined with such depth by Chak De! India.
Aug 2018
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Go Goa Gone
...if you can handle the relatively stretched and sinking second half, then it’s got to be said that the first half is definitely worth seeing and even the second half offers occasional scares and laughs.
May 2013
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Gippi
Unfortunately, the rest somehow has a been-there-seen-that-in-this-or-that-Hollywood-film quality to it.
May 2013
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Ghayal Once Again
The script’s bigger failing though is that it skims over too many characters without giving them enough flesh.
Feb 2016
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Ghanchakkar
...after an impressive set-up, there are entertaining bits and pieces in the second half of the film, and the last couple of minutes of the climax are not bad at all, but it just doesn’t add up.
Jun 2013
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Game Over
...is inventive, it is intelligent, it does not take the viewer lightly and above all else, it is terrifying.
Jun 2019
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Gali Guleiyan
It has been several days since I watched this film, and even now an acute sadness grips me each time I think about it. The beauty of Gali Guleiyan lies in the fact that I never ever want that feeling to go away.
Sep 2018
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Gabbar Is Back
You need better writing and overall packaging to pull off unapologetic nonsense. GIB falls flat on its face.
May 2015
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Dec 2017
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Fukrey
...if you’re in the binness of not analysing your entertainment too much, Fukrey’s the way to go!
Jun 2013
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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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Freaky Ali
...even the gifted Siddiqui cannot save Freaky Ali from its own flimsiness.
Sep 2016
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Fraud Saiyaan
Warsi’s continuing career struggles may explain why he agreed to be a part of this formulaic, dull, misogynistic rubbish, but what is worse is that Fraud Saiyaan is a Prakash Jha Productions presentation, with the senior producer-director’s daughter Disha Prakash Jha as one of its producers. Seriously Jha-saab, why?
Feb 2019
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Nov 2016
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Fitoor
The pain, the rejection, the searing desire for revenge, the all-conquering power of love – none of it is adequately conveyed in this film which, by the time its final scene rolled around, left me as cold and detached as Estella’s heart was when she first met Pip.
Feb 2016
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Firangi
Clearly Dhingra has his heart in the right place. What he also needed to have in place was substantive writing.
Dec 2017
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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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Fan
...is far from being perfect, it urges us to think about issues relating to stardom, fandom, idolatry and public expectations from famous people without overtly appearing to do so.
Apr 2016