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Race 3
Remo fetishizes the cars, helicopters, looming towers, gilded rooms and bars where these characters hang out but he doesn’t extend the same love to the narrative. Storytelling is sacrificed at the altar of Superstar Salman Khan.
Jun 2018
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Jan 2013
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Raat Gayi Baat Gayi
...pitched as a romantic comedy but is neither very funny nor very romantic.
Jan 2010
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Raanjhanaa
...despite these flaws, I’m recommending that you see it. Especially for Dhanush who proves that eventually looks don’t matter. Neither does size. All that towers is talent.
Jun 2013
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Raajneeti
...a mixed bag. The film has moments of ferocious power and just as many flaws.
Jun 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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Dec 2013
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Queen
Ultimately Queen is Kangana’s triumph. I left the theatre thinking about Rani and how the rest of her life would pan out. It’s not often you do that with a Bollywood character. This one is special.
Mar 2014
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama
The plot is inert and the dialogue, vacuous. The film feels like it's in slow-motion. Nothing much happens for a very long time.
May 2011
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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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Pink
...works because the grimness of the material doesn't weigh on the telling. This isn't a laboured lecture on women's rights.
Sep 2016
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May 2015
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Nov 2018
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Photograph
...doesn’t come together as beautifully as The Lunchbox did. The screenplay isn’t as sharp or insightful. In places the film is so quiet that it feels inert. I’m not going to lie – I did get impatient. And yet the next morning, I found myself thinking about Rafi and Miloni. There is a tenderness that stays with you.
Mar 2019
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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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Phobia
...is satisfying and fun — both words you don’t get to use often with Hindi horror films.
May 2016
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Patiala House
It is an old-fashioned Hindi movie with big drama, solid dialogue-baazi and moments that are genuinely moving and rousing.
Feb 2011
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Pati Patni Aur Woh
...Mudassar Aziz attempts to deliver a remake that is lively, funny and at least superficially, progressive – he doesn’t always succeed but there is fun to be had here.
Dec 2019
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Parmanu
Sharma unashamedly plays the patriotic card. Without apology, he yanks our heartstrings and evokes a rush of pride when the bombs finally explode. Larger questions about megaton killing machines go unasked. You might question the authenticity and plausibility of what you see in Parmanu but it does deliver on drama.
May 2018
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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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Parched
Parched gets bogged down by its good intentions. But these spirited female characters will stay with you.
Sep 2016
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Pankh
...is frankly ugly and beyond a point, absolutely tedious. Sanjay and Sudipto want to be edgy and dark but the writing isn’t sophisticated enough to support their ambitions.
Apr 2010
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Panipat
This is writing by committee and it shows on screen – instead of an organic story, we get a fractured, leaden structure that moves from one scene to another with the help of a voice-over and animated maps.
Dec 2019
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Panga
Some will argue that Panga is too sanitized and optimistic. The actual struggle of a mother picking up a career again is much harder. Of course it is. But for now, I’ll take the warmth and hope that this film offers. I think you should too.
Jan 2020
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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