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Blank
...Blank isn’t merely an adjective, it’s an entire sensibility. Which, as you can imagine, makes for a pretty dull movie.
May 2019
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Bhoot – Part One
Bhanu plays with the usual horror tropes – creaking doors, found footage, mirrors, children, dolls and cell-phones not working exactly when you need them. Which isn’t the problem. You pretty much sign up for this when you go into a horror film. The trouble is that beyond the first hour, the screenplay gets repetitive and increasingly silly.
Feb 2020
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Saaho
I know that a popcorn entertainer like Saaho isn’t driven by logic or coherence. And I would have made my peace with it if the film delivered a good time. My biggest complaint is that it’s a crashing bore.
Aug 2019
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Nov 2016
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Click
How hard can it be to make a reasonably diverting horror film if all you’re doing is copying? Well, if you’re Sangeeth Sivan, the answer is: very hard.
Feb 2010
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Raabta
This film veers from flat-out silly to unintentionally funny to tear-your-hair-out tedious.
Jun 2017
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Dabangg 3
...is a joyless, exhausting ode to the superstardom of Salman Khan. It’s a masala movie with little spice in it.
Dec 2019
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Rajjo
...a delirium of bewildering narrative, inane dialogue, bad acting and general all-around absurdity that becomes, unintentionally, pure comedy.
Nov 2013
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Holiday
...a profoundly moronic film that moves from one preposterous situation to another.
Jun 2014
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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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Baaghi 3
Bronzed and shirtless, Tiger can outrun helicopters, tanks, men. What he can’t outrun is the mediocrity of this film.
Mar 2020
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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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Entertainment
The jokes are purposefully mindless, but they come at you at such a furious pace that you are lulled into an exhausted laughter.
Aug 2014
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The Accidental Prime Minister
...strategically, a smart move. But here’s what I don’t get – why create such a shoddy product? The Accidental Prime Minister is narratively incoherent, technically sloppy and flat-out tedious.
Jan 2019
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Ek Paheli Leela
Director Bobby Khan wants to create an epic reincarnation love story. But he can’t surmount two challenges — the ludicrous script and the wooden actors.
Apr 2015
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Jai Mummy Di
...the acting is bizarre, the writing is sloppy, the plot is incoherent and the background music is so purposefully annoying that you want to weep.
Jan 2020
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Coolie No.1
The earlier Coolie No 1 had a cheery lunacy and a degree of innocence that allowed the ridiculous plot to play out as an extended joke. Govinda’s effortless clowning helped viewers to ignore the more problematic parts of the film. But in 2020, the narrative is dated and offensive on so many levels.
Dec 2020
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Dunno Y Na Jaane Kyun...
The script, performances, dialogue and direction are so staggeringly inept that Dunno Y is an instant classic and the latest entrant to my list of so-bad-they-are-good films.
Nov 2010
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Bypass Road
My takeaway from Bypass Road is that perhaps it isn’t such a good idea to let an actor write a script, play the lead role, co-produce the film and have his brother direct it. Because then what you get isn’t a film, it’s a showreel.
Nov 2019
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Pagalpanti
...is so soul-sucking and brain-dead that it makes Bazmee’s last film Mubarakan look like high art.
Nov 2019