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Raavan
Raavan falls for Sita (and vice versa) in an intriguingly idiosyncratic take on the Ramayana – if you can get past the lead performances, that is.
Jun 2010
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Band Baaja Baaraat
A beautifully textured romcom with flesh-and-blood characters instead of lazy caricatures.
Dec 2010
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Barfi!
I was trying to think of another film that’s so sad that made me feel so happy watching it. I still haven’t come up with a name.
Sep 2012
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Rocket Singh
...charming, minor-key movie about material that might have been better served belted out with brassy energy.
Dec 2009
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Dhobi Ghat
Forget the rangy big points. It’s the sculpted small-moment that marks this elegant elegy to Mumbai.
Jan 2011
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Sep 2017
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Aug 2013
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Yeh Saali Zindagi
An entertaining screwball-noir is also in the running for the year’s unlikeliest love story.
Feb 2011
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War
...is a defining action movie of our time. It’s Hollywood enough to rock the multiplexes, but it doesn’t forget its roots.
Oct 2019
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Pink
may be the first film to literally bridge the divide between the (perceived) sensibilities of the multiplex audience and those that frequent single screens.
Sep 2016
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Talvar
Bhardwaj writes the hell out the film. Have I said this earlier? I’ll say it again. Talvar is a smashing return to form for him...
Oct 2015
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Highway
The feeling that we’re on a journey with no use for beginnings or ends is exhilarating.
Feb 2014
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Jul 2015
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Mukkabaaz
I loved Mukkabaaz, but it took me a while to put a frame on it, to decide how to look at it. Kashyap’s reputation is so festooned with international art-house hosannas – screenings at Cannes! reviews in Variety! – that it’s easy to forget how rooted in Hindi cinema he is.
Jan 2018
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Ferrari Ki Sawaari
So much of Ferrari Ki Sawaari is so original, so one-of-a-kind, that part of the fun of watching the film is just seeing where it will go next.
Jun 2012
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Sep 2018
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May 2016
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Gangs Of Wasseypur
...a diffuse epic, content to coast around the revenge plot instead of making it the thrust of its narrative – and what the film loses in terms of dramatic power, it gains in texture.
Jun 2012
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May 2015
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Jagga Jasoos
The left half, he says, is logical. The right half is mad, magical. Anurag Basu has made a right-brain movie. I’m not sure it can be defended logically, and I’m not sure I care when the result is so mad, so magical.
Jul 2017
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Andhadhun
Despite questionable second-half detours, Sriram Raghavan’s new film is a most entertaining ride.
Oct 2018
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Judgemental Hai Kya
It’s just that the film is far more convincing as an art installation about a mental condition than as a whodunit, whydunit or did anyone indeed dunit in the first place!
Jul 2019
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Dabangg
Two films for the price of one - an entertaining, star-centric potboiler, plus a delicately textured relationship drama.
Sep 2010
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Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
There’s none of that ‘leave your brains at the door, just go have fun’ condescension, and there’s no star-pandering. Rajamouli takes the genre seriously – he doesn’t pander to the audience either.
Apr 2017
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Soorma
An affecting biopic that, refreshingly, stays grounded and alert to its human beats.
Jul 2018