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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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Rock On 2
...is well-staged and not entirely unwatchable, but it would have been much better had it tried to do less.
Nov 2016
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Right Yaaa Wrong
...a morality-play thriller that’s not exactly bad, but not much good either.
Mar 2010
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Rann
Varma’s accomplishment in Rann is to transform an entirely predictable outline into an engrossing experience.
Jan 2010
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Ram-leela
...is so generic, it could have been made by anyone with the sense to hire a good cinematographer and art director.
Nov 2013
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Raja Natwarlal
...isn’t a great – or maybe even a good – movie, but it serves up some of the innocuous fun we used to get from Hindi films before the industry went all global and classy on us.
Aug 2014
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Mar 2018
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Raees
Is it possible to make a relatively “realistic” masala movie? The lines don’t have the punch they should, and the Old Bollywood scenes are an embarrassment.
Jan 2017
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Jun 2018
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Race 2
...the "director duo" – that very moniker is funnier than most of what passes for humour in their films – have somehow pulled off a thriller where we root for the beautiful people. Walking out, I thought, "How did they do this?"
Jan 2013
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Raazi
I’m happy Raazi is a hit. We need more heroine-driven films to work broadly — and not just in a few metro pockets. But the film is broad, too, as is Alia Bhatt’s performance, though she is a victim of the writing and filmmaking.
May 2018
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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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Raanjhanaa
I was left with mixed feelings, torn between admiration for what was being attempted and frustration that a film dealing with such serious subject matter had chosen to take an audience-friendly approach, showcasing its protagonist as someone you just can’t help loving.
Jun 2013
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Ra.One
...this isn't a film that embraces tomorrow as much as it celebrates yesterday, and its most remarkable achievement may be that, with one foot tentatively toeing the future and one stuck resolutely in the past, it didn't end up peeing all over itself.
Oct 2011
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Queen
It’s too long, too predictable, and too full of bits that needn’t have existed – that lizard bit? that sex shop bit? that casino bit? – but everything is pulled off with such panache (and with such good performances, especially from Ranaut) that you don’t feel like complaining.
Mar 2014
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2
...overlong and it tries to make us feel outraged on behalf of these guys.
Oct 2015
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Pyaar Impossible
That such a mating is possible is the fiction we need these films to feed us – why else would we watch rom-coms? – and yet you can’t help wishing that the fantasy weren’t so many light years removed from reality.
Jan 2010
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Prince
Gulati cannot decide if he wants to emulate a superhero movie or if he’d rather tap into a more human dimension, with the hero in a limbo after having lost his mind. The film itself exists in a bit of a limbo...
Apr 2010
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Prem Ratan Dhan Payo
While this may make for great box-office, it’s not consistently arresting cinema.
Nov 2015
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PK
The bigger problem is that the film practically reeks of formula. Hirani has become some sort of Madhur Bhandarkar, telling, essentially, the same story and simply focusing on a different facet of society.
Dec 2014
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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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May 2015
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May 2016
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Phata Poster Nikhla Hero
We really only care about the laughs. But what Santoshi’s making aren’t just comedies. They’re reverential homage. They’re tongue-in-cheek throwback. They’re a love letter to the movies. They’re utterly one-of-a-kind.
Sep 2013
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Phantom
If you could taste films, this one would be positively brackish from all the pinches of salt.
Aug 2015
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Peepli [Live]
An extremely well-made first feature is also extremely overfamiliar, what with its initial investment in farmer suicides giving way to easy potshots at our media.
Aug 2010
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Patiala House
Underdog-cricketer story meets emancipation saga in an inoffensive-enough drama that really should have been much better.
Feb 2011
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Pati Patni Aur Woh
This remake needed to be funnier, but it does interesting things with its women.
Dec 2019