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Nov 2015
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X: Past is Present
It’s interesting, certainly. But look past the style, and there’s little substance.
Nov 2015
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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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Titli
This is an impressive debut, and the only one I can recall right now that puts up such a loveless, unlovable bunch on screen.
Nov 2015
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Nov 2015
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Main Aur Charles
Some parts are confusing and there’s no grip. It’s just one escapade after another.
Nov 2015
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Oct 2015
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Wedding Pullav
It seems to be more of an educational video put together for future generations to get an idea of the ingredients in the rom-coms of our time.
Oct 2015
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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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Singh Is Bliing
Why can’t we make just pure comedy – without action, without missing mothers, without villains? I’d have ended up happier had I walked out during the interval.
Oct 2015
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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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Sep 2015
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Sep 2015
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Kaun Kitney Paani Mein
The film is pleasantly nuts and there’s a lot to like, but it doesn’t exactly soar.
Sep 2015
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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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Aug 2015
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All Is Well
Oh My God! isn’t just the name of Shukla’s last film. It’s what you keep exclaiming during these couple of hours.
Aug 2015
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Brothers
One feels a twinge about picking on a movie made with so much craft and care, by a director who errs on the side of too much in the midst of many who do too little, but strip away the pretty wallpaper and you’ll see how generic Brothers is...
Aug 2015
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Bangistan
Anshuman has ideas – but he doesn’t know what to do with those ideas on screen.
Aug 2015
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Jul 2015
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Guddu Rangeela
Some films that don’t quite work, you dismiss outright. Guddu Rangeela is the kind of film you grapple with. You wish it were better.
Jul 2015
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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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ABCD - Any Body Can Dance - 2
How you respond to ABCD 2 will probably depend on how much you follow dance-reality shows on television, how much you like hip hop moves, and, most important, if you’re still at an age where you squeal when people you like show up on screen.
Jun 2015
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Jun 2015
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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?
Jun 2015
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Tanu Weds Manu Returns
A romance that struggles to measure up to its heroine’s performance.
May 2015
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May 2015
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Gabbar Is Back
The title Gabbar Is Back merely indicates the return of the bogeyman, not the return of the glorious masala cinema of his era.
May 2015