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Pari
...asks the big question – are human beings in fact the biggest monsters? I say the biggest horror is a lame script.
Mar 2018
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Prince
...is the funniest Bollywood movie I've seen this year. I laughed so hard that my sides hurt. Only I don't think that's the reaction debutant director Kookie V Gulati was aiming for.
Apr 2010
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Chance Pe Dance
...tries to combine a dance movie with a Bollywood-cinderella story and comes up empty-handed.
Jan 2010
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Kaccha Limboo
...could have broken new ground but its insights are few and far between.
Feb 2011
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Jan 2013
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Ok Jaanu
Shaad doesn’t add anything to the narrative and the leads aren’t dazzling enough to distract us from the inherent flaws — like the repetition and predictable ending.
Jan 2017
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Chalo Dilli
...strains hard to be uplifting and poignant but it doesn't quite make it.
Apr 2011
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Happy Ending
I suspect that somewhere in there was a genuinely sparkling and subversive love story. Sadly, it never emerges.
Nov 2014
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Tees Maar Khan
In Tees Maar Khan, everyone is overacting as though life depends on it. There is a lot of screaming, grimacing and heaving.
Dec 2010
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Apr 2014
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Karwaan
If the story had more depth, these three could have worked magic. But Karwaan stays on the surface.
Aug 2018
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Junglee
The elephants are on point but the humans have the depth of cartoon characters.
Mar 2019
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Mar 2010
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Jism - 2
...should have been way more fun than this. The film is an anti-climactic let-down.
Aug 2012
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Gulaab Gang
For a real dose of women empowerment, watch Gulabi Gang, a terrific documentary on Sampat Pal, which is still running in select theaters. Gulaab Gang is the masala remix.
Mar 2014
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Jul 2017
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Phoonk 2
...characters are supremely dim-witted and even the frights are too few and far between. One of the pleasures of these type of horror films is guessing which character will be bumped off first and how. But Gadagkar’s killings don’t show any flair or imagination. The horror is more Ramsay variety.
Apr 2010
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Chaurahen
...brims with tortured souls, pensive silences, meaningful looks and meals left unfinished. Not surprisingly, it’s a slog of a film.
Mar 2012
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Oct 2013
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Romeo Akbar Walter
This material had the potential to be a suspenseful espionage drama. But the film is too drab to soar.
Apr 2019
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Street Dancer 3D
For the running time of this film – two hours and twenty-four minutes – people are pirouetting, leaping, flipping, contorting and moving their limbs in impossible ways. Watching them, I thought – if the script was half as nimble as these gifted people, this film would have been a smash. Sadly, that is not the case.
Jan 2020
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Jan 2010
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Anjaana Anjaani
...has a flatness that is unique. The screenplay, co-written by Siddharth and Advaita Kala from a story by Mamata Anand, goes nowhere fast.
Oct 2010
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Khandaani Shafakhana
The film wants to be funny but the writing is too weak and the feeble jokes are underlined with loud background music, cueing us to laugh. The film also wants to deliver a serious message about the importance of being open about sex – so entire scenes play out like public service announcements, in which characters espouse the cause.
Aug 2019