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Teraa Surroor
...this film is as flat as Farah Karimi’s enviably slim waist, as bland as Maggi Noodles without the Tastemaker and as pointless in its existence as the human appendix.
Mar 2016
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Jai Gangaajal
...is watchable. The film suffers sorely because Prakash Jha makes it too much about himself.
Mar 2016
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Tere Bin Laden Dead Or Alive
...is not crude or distasteful in the manner of low-brow comedies we have seen emerging from Bollywood in the past. It is just proof – since so many people seem to need proof – that comedy is one of the hardest things to achieve in the arts.
Feb 2016
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Aligarh
Despite a sterling performance by Manoj Bajpayee and other positives, Aligarh ends up being an inconsistent biopic – on the one hand providing a beautiful portrait of reclusiveness, yet elsewhere doing a disservice to a man to whom this country owes an apology.
Feb 2016
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Neerja
For a filmmaker to stir up such a high degree of emotion while making no obvious attempt to manipulate us is an amazing achievement. Neerja is outstanding.
Feb 2016
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Feb 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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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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Mastizaade
The double entendre seems to be drawn from pubescent schoolboys just beginning to discover the female mammary glands and cursed with particularly low IQs.
Feb 2016
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Saala Khadoos
As with most such films, the final outcome in the ring is not hard to predict here. The journey to that moment though is emotionally engaging and, after a point, nerve-wracking enough to draw cheers of delight.
Feb 2016
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Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3
As with politicians and the media, so it is with cinema – I guess we get the films we deserve. What next? Kya Super Stupid Hain Hum?
Jan 2016
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Airlift
...is Argo with a split personality, songs and questionable fidelity to facts.
Jan 2016
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Chalk N Duster
It is a mark of Bollywood’s extreme gender bias that the likes of Shabana and Juhi must, more often than not, compromise on quality if they wish to play heroines. These remarkable women deserve better than this clumsy, even if well-meaning, film. So does the teaching profession.
Jan 2016
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Chauranga
...is so low-key that it comes across as an unfeeling drama even though the screen is, at all times, busy with multiple pressing concerns.
Jan 2016
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Wazir
Although Wazir falls flat on its face as a thriller when you consider the question posed earlier in this review, it does work in other departments.
Jan 2016
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Bajirao Mastani
Despite its shortcomings then, this is a brave and beautiful film – beautiful to look at, beautiful in its position on religion, brave in its take on history, brave in its unwillingness to paint religious groups or its primary characters as black or white.
Dec 2015
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Nov 2015
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X: Past is Present
...emerges from an interesting experimental concept that comes to naught.
Nov 2015
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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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Titli
...is one of the most gripping Hindi films to come to theatres this year. It is entertaining in a hard-to-explain sort of way because it is so heart-stoppingly matter of fact about the horrific, sad, almost bizarre reality check it delivers.
Oct 2015
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Shaandaar
Team Shaandaar is clearly aiming at a certain quirkiness that it fails to achieve for the most part.
Oct 2015
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Oct 2015
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Jazbaa
All the megawatt casting, stylish camerawork and blue-gray tints in the world cannot alter the fact that when it comes down to brass tacks and a scrutiny of the climax, Jazbaa is a hollow film.
Oct 2015
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Singh Is Bliing
SIB’s lack of substance makes it forgettable, but while it lasts it is a pleasant, mostly harmless, rib-tickling, side-splitting affair.
Oct 2015
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Sep 2015