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Jan 2018
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Jul 2014
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Apr 2015
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Running Shaadi
...loose writing, unforgivably limited social insights, feeble direction and screenplay.
Feb 2017
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Nanu Ki Jaanu
It is scary in a few parts and funny in more, which is why it is so sad that in the overall assessment and especially in its finale, it turns out to be such a loosely handled, low-IQ mess.
Apr 2018
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Freaky Ali
...even the gifted Siddiqui cannot save Freaky Ali from its own flimsiness.
Sep 2016
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Kaanchi
It’s always sad to watch the decline of a once successful artiste. Sadder still to write this review. There is just one word to describe Kaanchi: boring.
Apr 2014
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Dec 2020
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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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Saaho
A lot of it is very high tech and clearly very expensive. At the end of the day though, what we get is not a film but a little boy showing off his toys to his playmates.
Aug 2019
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Shab
Restraint cannot mean zero vitality, yet that is what you get in Shab. Worse, the film does not have anything new to say.
Jul 2017
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Mitron
...Mitron’s screenplay has quite a bit going for it, and the casting of the leading man is the spoke in the wheel.
Sep 2018
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Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
...half-baked, lifeless, low-IQ film with its juvenile humour and family politics that resembles circumstances in the cheapest saas-bahu soaps now running on Hindi fiction TV.
Nov 2015
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Mr Joe B. Carvalho
Slapstick jokes need not be logical, but they must be built around a slightly coherent storyline; and the humour must sustain itself. This film does neither.
Jan 2014
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Commando 2
The film’s impressive action scenes and pretty hero cannot make up for its limited substance, which matters particularly because the action is not unrelenting.
Mar 2017
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Welcome 2 Karachi
As it stands, W2K’s narrative is looser than the drawstrings on a pair of pyjamas that are falling off their wearer.
Aug 2015
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Sarkar 3
...too is lacklustre and ordinary. Coming from the House of Ram Gopal Varma, in some ways that counts as worse than being bad.
May 2017
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X: Past is Present
...emerges from an interesting experimental concept that comes to naught.
Nov 2015
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Kabir Singh
Kabir Singh and its Telugu forebear Arjun Reddy must rank among the most disturbing examples of the obsessive stalker hero being glamourised by Indian cinema.
Jun 2019
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Badrinath Ki Dulhania
...a dishonest film, neither fully committed to the causes it apparently espouses nor to its own closeted conservatism.
Mar 2017
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High Jack
In the end, the film remains a stringing together of good concepts that are not carried to their fruition.
May 2018
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Simmba
Don’t be deceived by the apparent good intentions – women’s safety is just another excuse for Shetty’s macho hero to deliver speeches, take the law into his own hands, display his impressive biceps and single-handedly bash up groups of bad men.
Feb 2019
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Hate Story
...latent possibilities are buried here under a contrived script in which all proceedings are manipulated to fall in line with the writer’s ultimate goal, the dialoguebaazi is more amusing than it is hard hitting, and the execution borders on the farcical.
Apr 2012
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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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Aiyaary
Pace and bluster cannot compensate for lack of substance. This wannabe James Bond flick is nothing but a blast of hot air.
Feb 2018
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Satyameva Jayate
To describe Satyameva Jayate merely as tired would be a kindness. In fact, the writing and execution are both exhausted, making it an exhausting viewing experience.
Aug 2018
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Jun 2016
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Jab Harry Met Sejal
...is occasionally funny, but not half as funny or cute or ruminative as it clearly thinks it is. Hats off to Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma for managing to raise the Centigrades in this otherwise pakau disaster.
Aug 2017