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Apr 2011
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Zero
...left me stumped and eventually, sad. Because when artists take such ambitious creative risks, you are really rooting for them to succeed.
Dec 2018
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Zanjeer
This remake is wrong on so many levels that I don’t know where to begin. This isn’t a film. It’s sacrilege.
Sep 2013
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Yeh Saali Zindagi
The film is much too long, indulgent and exhausting but if you’re willing to work with it, there is considerable fun to be had.
Feb 2011
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Ultimately, there is enough eye-candy in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani to see you through, but I wish the film had more meat and less dressing.
Jun 2013
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Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se
...tries to be a comedy, an Ayurveda commercial, a plea for national integration – specifically between Gujaratis and Punjabis – a love story and a moral science lesson.
Aug 2018
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Jun 2013
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Jan 2011
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Why Cheat India
...like the hybrid of fact and fiction, needed far more imagination and audacity.
Jan 2019
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Well Done Abba
...is heart-felt and intermittently funny but not flat-out delightful like Benegal’s last film Welcome to Sajjanpur. You need oodles of patience to enjoy this one.
Mar 2010
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Welcome to New York
...this incoherent mess of a film plays out more like an extended skit or a school play.
Feb 2018
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Oct 2013
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War
...is very much a bromance which sparkles because Hrithik and Tiger are combative without being competitive. I had a good time. I think you will too.
Oct 2019
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Vodka Diaries
...a film so preposterous that within a few minutes I started to feel a little embarrassed for the actors on-screen.
Jan 2018
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Vicky Donor
...is one of those rare Hindi films that work purely on the strength of writing and performances.
Apr 2012
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Veer
If like me, you can find delight in the sheer delirium of a bad Bollywood film, then see Veer, otherwise do catch it on DVD. In a few years, this sensibility and swagger will be extinct.
Jan 2010
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Uri
...is an unabashed love letter to the Indian army. If you want nuance or insight into the hearts and minds of brave men and women who willingly put themselves in the line of fire, you won’t find it here.
Jan 2019
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UnIndian
...has stray moments of warmth and humour, but it’s just not enough. I am interested to see what Mr. Lee does next, though.
Aug 2016
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Ujda Chaman
The biggest problem with Ujda Chaman is that the film wants to have it both ways – first make you laugh with cheesy jokes about sex and virginity and then deliver an important social message about why we shouldn’t judge people by their looks.
Nov 2019
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Nov 2017
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Tum Milo Toh Sahi
...the attempt here was a bitter-sweet love letter to Mumbai and its people but the film is fatally undone by the clumsy writing. The screenplay is static and the dialogue, superbly low IQ.
Apr 2010
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Nov 2016
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Tubelight
...is cinema as a sermon. Which makes the film flat and emotionally unconvincing. The good intentions and lectures on yakeen don’t translate into a gripping narrative.
Jun 2017