An archive of Hindi movie reviews and ratings from 2010 to 2020.

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Baradwaj Rangan

Highest rating for

79

Lowest rating for
Number of reviews
388
Average rating
41

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Title

Rating

  • Dil Dhadakne Do

    All those carefully calibrated line readings. You may wonder if, after filling out the soapy plot with Reema Kagti, Akhtar experienced some kind of soap-opera twist herself, amnesia or something. What else could explain the disconnect between the material and the movie?

    29

    Jun 2015
  • Don 2

    The depressingly underwhelming (and numbingly long) Don 2 is less about Farhan Akhtar's commitment to plot and character than hairstyling and haberdashery.

    19

    Dec 2011
  • Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga

    This very “safeness” is this film’s secret strength. This isn’t Blue is the Warmest Colour. It’s a YashRaj-style romance with two girls. Without discomfiting the mainstream audience, it makes it possible to talk about a “bedroom subject” in the living room.

    59

    Feb 2019
  • English Vinglish

    There is a lot to like in English Vinglish, which is the very definition of a gentle and urbane entertainment, but I couldn’t get past this manufactured premise, which makes all successive events seem manufactured.

    39

    Oct 2012
  • Fitoor

    After a point, I didn’t want a movie about Kashmir, I didn’t want a movie about Noor and Firdaus, I just wanted to see Hazrat grow old and batty.

    39

    Mar 2016
  • Fugly

    There’s a good movie to be made from all this, one that looks at our country through the eyes of women, especially in light of recent headlines – but Fugly isn’t it.

    29

    Jun 2014