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Student Of The Year 2
You signed up for a fantasy and that’s precisely what director Punit Malhotra is providing. What you can complain about is the poor writing.
May 2019
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Student Of The Year
Karan Johar's forte is excess. He creates fantastical worlds brimming with beautiful people and expensive things and yet anchors them in high emotion. His films work as both designer porn and soap opera. The pleasure you derive from his films is directly connected to your tolerance of candy floss.
Oct 2012
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Striker
...is the kind of film that fills you with regret. There is skilful direction here, some nicely etched moments and commendable performances and yet the film never gathers enough momentum to make an impact. Striker never becomes the film it could have been.
Feb 2010
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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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Stree
Director Amar Kaushik and writers Krishna D.K. and Raj Nidimoru create a horror-comedy, which turns out to be subversive commentary on the position and treatment of women in India. It’s clever and very funny.
Aug 2018
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Stanley Ka Dabba
...has an inherent sweetness and honesty that will stay with you long after the film is over.
May 2011
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Feb 2018
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Sonchiriya
...tries to blend Spaghetti Western style-action drama with social commentary but it isn’t entirely satisfying on either count.
Mar 2019
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Son Of Sardaar
...is exhausting, painfully loud and way too long, with too few laughs.
Nov 2012
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Aug 2014
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Simran
...is a brilliant performance trapped in a sloppy screenplay - ironical given the headline-hogging, fall-out between writer Apurva Asrani and Kangana Ranaut over writing credits. Actually, the writing is the weakest part of the film.
Sep 2017
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Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan
In an interview, Ayushmann described Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan as an introduction to homosexuality for an average Indian homophobe. The film might work as that. But for those of us who aren’t in this target group, it doesn’t connect enough. Though it’s heartening that with this film and Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga last year, Bollywood has at least begun the conversation.
Feb 2020
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Shor In The City
...a terrific film. It's surprising and disturbing and has a vein of rich, dark humor coursing through it.
Apr 2011
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May 2013
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Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi
Clearly Bela has great affection for her characters. I just wish she had given them a better plot to play in.
Aug 2012
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Shamitabh
...a lovingly crafted film that doesn’t quite pan out. Which is a shame, because there is much to savour here.
Feb 2015
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Shaitan
Slowly but surely Shaitan loses steam, becomes repetitive and ends in a whimper. Which is a shame because Nambiar has talent to burn.
Jun 2011
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Shahrukh Bola Khoobsurat Hai Tu
A film like this required more inventive and flamboyant writing.
Nov 2010
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Shahid
Shahid is Raj Kumar’s triumph. His Shahid has strength, anguish and a controlled anger, but also real charm. His smile lights up the frame. See Shahid for him.
Oct 2013
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Shagird
Nana Patekar fans will enjoy his purposefully eccentric, casually ruthless cop but honestly, it felt like deja vu to me.
May 2011
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Shaadi Ke Side Effects
...is in equal parts, enjoyable and exasperating. Pretty much like the average marriage.
Mar 2014
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Satyameva Jayate
...the sort of film that bludgeons you and leaves you drained and entirely cheerless.
Aug 2018
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Satyagraha
If good intentions were enough to make good movies, Satyagraha would be a masterpiece.
Sep 2013
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Satya 2
This film has no connection – either in quality or in narrative – with the first.
Nov 2013
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Sarbjit
...might be heavy-handed storytelling but it has its heart in the right place.
May 2016
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Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar
Dibakar and Varun orchestrate a masterful takedown of Indian masculinity and capitalist greed and corruption.
Mar 2021