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Pari
A rewarding slow-burn story that’s not a ‘horror movie’ so much as a horror-inflected drama about misfits.
Mar 2018
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Parched
We’ve had many films about women, but few that have so sensitively, so generously let them be women.
Sep 2016
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Panga
A superb Kangana Ranaut anchors a sports drama that’s really a story about second chances.
Jan 2020
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Pad Man
...Balki never loses sight of the fact that what he’s making isn’t an Oscar-bait biopic but a rousing audience-pleaser.
Feb 2018
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Padmaavat
All of which is to say that people who don’t care for this filmmaker should stay far, far away — but even for fans, Padmaavat is an underwhelming oddity.
Jan 2018
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Paan Singh Tomar
...even if it doesn't entirely reveal itself and stays somewhat locked inside its protagonist's head - throbs with heart and humour and a knowing appreciation of life in the hinterlands.
Mar 2012
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One Night Stand
How much better One Night Stand would have been with better actors, a more committed filmmaker than Jasmine Moses D’souza!
May 2016
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One By Two
After a while, the film begins to feel like an academic experiment: Can the lives of two not-terribly-interesting people be shaped into an interesting story?
Feb 2014
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Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara
The directors from the Mahesh Bhatt stable know their way around the darker side of desire and they know how to shape characters that are real yet just this side of larger-than-life. Other filmmakers venturing into these waters come off as posers...
Aug 2013
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Ok Jaanu
I feel for Shaad Ali. Ever since his best film, the criminally underrated Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, bombed, he’s been at sea. Remaking his mentor’s works may be a way to keep himself visible, but someone should tell him an echo is not a voice.
Jan 2017
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Not A Love Story
This is probably the closest Varma is going to get to a Heer-Ranjha story.
Aug 2011
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Apr 2017
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NH10
...isn’t quite a disaster, but it’s a confused film, one that makes the mistake of having too much on its plate.
Mar 2015
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Sep 2017
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Neerja
...is a fine tribute to a woman whose wings were clipped just as she was beginning to fly.
Mar 2016
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Mar 2010
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My Name is Khan
Shah Rukh Khan shines in a dully earnest drama that bites off too much and chews on too little.
Feb 2010
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Aug 2018
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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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Mubarakan
A comedy lives and dies on the strength of its bits, and Mubarakan has a few.
Aug 2017
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Monsoon Shootout
...was a little too low-key for my taste — it isn’t quite as existential as I’d have liked, and the butter-smooth filmmaking could have used more rough edges. But there’s still a lot of skill on display, not least from Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
Dec 2017
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Jul 2017
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Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho
The other thing that makes us uneasy is the persistent doubt that these villagers are being paraded about for our amusement, that they’re being made a little too colourful just so we can sit back in our multiplexes and laugh at them.
Jul 2015
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Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho
Shukla aims for a lighthearted tone that come and goes, and it's his lamentably little-seen cast that grabs and holds our interest
Dec 2010