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Sep 2015
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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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Phantom
...is what we Indians call “timepass”. Considering the subject matter, it should have been more, but as it is, it’s what we Indians additionally call a “one-time watch”.
Aug 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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Masaan
There can be no greater measure of the effectiveness of a film than that the dreams of its characters become ours, their heartbreaks become our heartbreaks, their joys our very own. That is the kind of film sweet little Masaan is.
Jul 2015
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Bajrangi Bhaijaan
I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed a Salman Khan film so much.
Jul 2015
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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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Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho
...could have sparked off a discussion on the subject, but in its confusion about the tone it should take and in the absence of a commitment to the cause it seems to be espousing, it ends up being a lukewarm film.
Jun 2015
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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2
If only a teeny bit more attention had been paid to the writing of ABCD 2, this could have been a great film. Well, even with its blemishes, it is remarkably entertaining.
Jun 2015
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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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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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Tanu Weds Manu Returns
Despite its jumbled story and this undercurrent of misogyny, it’s hard to write off the film. Because when the going gets good the dialogues are killers and because of the immaculate acting.
May 2015
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Bombay Velvet
...is a film that’s trying to be American or something like it; a film in which Kashyap, it would appear, is trying to be someone else.
May 2015
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Piku
...is both moving and rip-roaringly funny. It is also an extremely intelligent film that is modest about its intelligence.
May 2015
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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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Apr 2015
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Court
It’s the simplest of films, yet unimaginably complex. It’s straightforward yet marvelously thoughtful. In its understatement lies melodrama. In its refusal to dress itself up lies its richness.
Apr 2015
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NH10
...is never less than compelling. It is from start to finish a thoroughly absorbing film.
Mar 2015
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Coffee Bloom
...I found Coffee Bloom an unexpectedly satisfying film. It is paced in a fashion that might be considered too slow and too languid by some. To me though it felt relaxed, reflective, unusual and offbeat.
Mar 2015
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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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Ab Tak Chhappan 2
...is not a film worthy of hate or intense dislike. It just does not have much that’s new to offer. It’s hard to understand why this film needed to be made.
Feb 2015
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Badlapur
...boasts of many memorable scenes peopled with brilliant actors. The overall feeling though is one of a sporadically, episodically effective film that doesn’t quite add up.
Feb 2015
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Roy
When you neglect your writing and focus on the surface gloss instead, beyond a point the result is pretentiousness, tedium and characters who deliver philosophies to each other rather than conversing naturally.
Feb 2015
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MSG
ROFLMAOBTPWBBTFIFFWTYCPHI (rolling on the floor laughing my ass off because the promos were bad but the film is far far worse than you could possibly have imagined). Hehehe hehehe hehehehehehehehehehehe.
Feb 2015
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Feb 2015
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Tevar
...he (Arjun Kapoor) is yet to develop the charisma that sometimes enables stars to rise above poor writing and incompetent direction.
Jan 2015
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Ugly
...when it hits home, it hits home in a way few films have done this year. Ugly could have been a lot more. What it is as of now is worth watching all the same.
Dec 2014
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PK
...is not as brilliant as Hirani’s Munnabhai 1&2, but it’s still an excellent film that throws up surprises every step of the way. It had me laughing out loud then crying like a baby. It broke my heart then raised my spirits.
Dec 2014