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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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English Vinglish
...is an excellent comeback vehicle for India’s most successful pan-India female superstar, but what makes the film work is that the director is not star struck.
Oct 2012
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Ekk Deewana Tha
...works in places, but is filled with so many incongruities and strikes so many discordant notes that it is hard to get entirely drawn into the story.
Feb 2012
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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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Ek Tha Tiger
...is neither here nor there. It’s neither this nor that. It’s not an all-out action film, nor is it a heart-wrenching romance.
Aug 2012
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Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
...didn't take my breath away, but it did leave me with a warm, happy feeling.
Feb 2012
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Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga
...the strong screenplay is backed by an endearing cast.
Feb 2019
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Jul 2017
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Dum Laga Ke Haisha
...Katariya is a master weaver, smoothly bringing together the different threads in the story culminating in a heart-warming climax that is sweet but not manipulative, emotional not over-wrought, and like the rest of the film, utterly real.
Mar 2015
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Drishyam
What makes this Drishyam (even) more interesting than the original though, is the tweaking – both in the casting and writing – of its women and the central man-woman relationship.
Aug 2015
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Dream Girl
Just when you think Dream Girl has succumbed to what critics have in the past called The Curse of the Second Half though, it picks up once again thanks to certain cast members with unfailing comic timing.
Sep 2019
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Jun 2017
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Jun 2016
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Mar 2014
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Dec 2015
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Dil Dhadakne Do
...is not flawless, but barring that nutty ending, I had a rollicking good time watching it because it is funny, believable and sweet, the cast is lovely and most of all, because now that I’ve seen it, I’ve fallen in love with both Ranveer Singh and Anil Kapoor.
Jun 2015
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Dhanak
There’s a whole constellation twinkling at us off screen from this warmly appealing, life-affirming film.
Jun 2016
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Dhadak
...is just plain hollow. Even as a conventional rich-girl-poor-boy romance, it fails miserably, because of the superficially written bond between the lead pair.
Jul 2018
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Sep 2014
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Dekh Tamasha Dekh
This is a film that should be compulsory viewing in social science classes across the country.
Apr 2014
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Dedh Ishqiya
Nothing in this film is what it seems. Not even the genre. It’s a thriller, yet it stubbornly refuses to be frenetic, revealing its cards one step at a time, at its very own pace, as if teasing the viewer or cajoling us to forget that there might be another twist coming up.
Jan 2014
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Dear Zindagi
I loved SRK in the film, Bhatt is always a pleasure to watch, the story visits many themes that are uncommon in Bollywood, and several of the discussions are either witty or insightful or both. Overall though, the film comes across as being not enough because the writing needed more substance.
Nov 2016
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Dear Dad
...is well intentioned but once it sets off on its journey, it does not seem to know where to go.
May 2016
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De De Pyaar De
...has been marketed as an older-man-younger-woman romance, but make no mistake about this: what it truly is is a vehicle for claims of universal male victimhood, better disguised than its co-producer and co-writer Luv Ranjan's three directorial ventures
May 2019
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David
...is so tedious that it’s hard to focus on its very unusual pluses. This is a film that does not seem to know where it’s going.
Feb 2013
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Dangal
...may be confusingly cautious around popular notions on the parental front, but in the matter of sporting achievement it does not mince words: silver is second best, it tells us unequivocally, and there is nothing wrong in aiming for gold.
Dec 2016
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Dabangg 2
The film is fun and funny only in parts, not a complete washout but certainly a completely unworthy successor to Dabangg.
Dec 2012