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Island City
Ruchika Oberoi’s understated style, on-point writing and sense of humour are significant new additions to the Indian cinemascape. Island City is a sorrowful yet amusing, acutely observant film.
Sep 2016
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Ishkq In Paris
if you’re a die-hard romantic like me, then you might be in a mood to close your eyes to this film’s many flaws. I suspect that's the only way Ishkq in Paris would be your cup of tea.
May 2013
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Ishaqzaade
Discussing the music, cinematography and other technical aspects of Ishaqzaade seems superfluous considering the way the film’s fun and seemingly feminist first half is marred by its anti-women second half.
May 2012
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Irada
Little purpose is served though if you zero in on a crucial theme but do not breathe life into it. Irada (meaning: intent) is an opportunity lost to draw mass attention to a pressing concern.
Feb 2017
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Inkaar
Sexual harassment at the workplace needs to be addressed by Indian cinema. It’s an issue that deserves better than this wishy-washy film.
Jan 2013
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Indu Sarkar
While Indu Sarkar’s narrative is more engaging than Bhandarkar’s recent works, it is still inadequate.
Jul 2017
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I Me Aur Main
...director Kapil Sharma is clearly well intentioned, but struggles to provide his film with depth and meaning.
Mar 2013
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Humshakals
...is as flat as cola from a bottle that’s been left open for a year. Read that clearly please:
Jun 2014
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Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania
...is really funny in places, but it’s so insubstantial, unimaginative and regressive that that’s just not enough.
Jul 2014
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May 2013
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Housefull 3
...taking the audience lightly with lazy scripting, skating along instead on the charisma and goofiness of its central male star, goodwill for many of the remaining cast members and occasional patches of witty absurdity.
Jun 2016
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Housefull 2
...there is a difference between being cheeky and being distasteful, between being politically incorrect and downright insensitive.
Apr 2012
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Holiday
The problem with Holiday is that the formulaic comedy and romance end up diluting the thriller that it is intended to be, while the entire film is weighed down by its senselessness.
Jun 2014
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Hindi Medium
The film’s achievement is that it tells us things we already know yet forces us to think about them, and has lots of fun while doing so.
May 2017
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Highway
...with all this going for it plus an unpredictable ending, Highway cannot escape from the burden of its sketchy, incomplete feel.
Feb 2014
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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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Hichki
The film itself is not without its faults, but its uplifting theme and Mukerji’s understated performance serve as compensation.
Mar 2018
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Heropanti
Heropanti’s story is as half-baked as the means Tiger uses to attract attention to himself.
May 2014
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Sep 2012
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Helicopter Eela
...means well, but it ends up as an often fun but almost entirely superficial Mom com, a sort of English Vinglish without depth.
Oct 2018
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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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Haseena Parkar
...ends up being a staccato narration of facts, rather than a story pulsating with life.
Sep 2017
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Jul 2012
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Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
...is not without flaws, but they are overshadowed by the absence of references to farts, poop and animal backsides, homophobia, misogyny and other ugly biases that have repeatedly reared their heads in the kind of comedies Sinha herself has been a part of over the years.
Aug 2018
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Happy New Year
Team Farah-Shah Rukh are capable of much better in the over-the-top genre that they favour together. Happy New Year is a step down from Om Shanti Om, but if you enjoy boisterous entertainment that is still not entirely mindless, it’s worth a visit.
Oct 2014
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Happy Ending
...is sadly not as wacky as it could have been, but it’s genuinely funny and unobjectionable, which makes it easy to forgive the film its many shortcomings.
Nov 2014
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Happy Bhag Jayegi
Aziz obviously has a flair for comedy but he needs to work on it. What he desperately needed here was either more time and thought, or a co-writer to help him build on the starting blocks he set up.
Aug 2016