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

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Gaurav Malani

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Number of reviews
65
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53

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  • Prince

    Vivek Oberoi suffers intermittent convulsions through the film as his brain hangs like a computer. Wish the viewer had a Ctrl+Alt+Del option. Alas all they can do is curse the makers literally asking them ‘ dimag kharab ho gaya kya? ’

    39

    Apr 2010
  • Tum Milo Toh Sahi

    ...starts as a simple story but for the first half hangs aimlessly like people whiling away in a coffee shop. The second half is too slow and too many songs only slacken the pace.

    39

    Apr 2010
  • Hum Tum Aur Ghost

    Arshad Warsi’s debut as a writer is so ‘lifeless’ in Hum Tum aur Ghost that even his ‘spirited’ performance isn’t able to save the dead slow film from dying a slow death.

    39

    Mar 2010
  • Shaapit

    Shaapit , like most formulaic frightful films, is a horror flick where the tone, tempo and variation of the background score determines the moment of spook.

    49

    Mar 2010
  • Love Sex Aur Dhokha

    ...shouldn’t be restricted with tags like experimental, offbeat, path-breaking, low-budget or multiplex cinema. While it happens to be all of these, it goes beyond with its smart story and superlative storytelling to be a brilliant and entertaining film.

    79

    Mar 2010
  • Lahore

    With a perfectly predictable plotline, if a film still keeps you riveted through its runtime, you know there’s something earnestly right about it.

    59

    Mar 2010
  • Right Yaaa Wrong

    The supposed suspense in the first half is as lame as its protagonist with a perceptible double-cross at the interval point. The identity of the killer is revealed to the viewer soon after and with nothing left to your imagination, the genre changes from suspense-thriller to courtroom-drama.

    39

    Mar 2010
  • Karthik Calling Karthik

    ...a film calling in all admirers and connoisseurs of intelligent thrillers. Amidst several missed calls, blank calls, wrong numbers and cross connections (read tacky thrillers), this call from a new number (read debutante director Vijay Lalwani) is worth attending.

    69

    Feb 2010
  • My Name is Khan

    Karan Johar succeeds is in making Shah Rukh Khan underplay his character like never before and mellow down the human drama with as much positivity that a film with a backdrop as intense as 9/11 ends up being feel-good with an optimistic outlook.

    69

    Feb 2010
  • Rann

    Rather than a story designed around the media world, Rann is more of the clichéd corrupt politician chronicle (that Bollywood has been narrating since ages) set on the backdrop of the broadcasting business.

    49

    Jan 2010
  • Chance Pe Dance

    Ken Ghosh’s dance-drama takes no chance in experimenting with storytelling style and ends up being an extended version of the music videos that he used to direct before making feature films.

    39

    Jan 2010
  • Pyaar Impossible

    The moral of the film is that one shouldn’t judge a person by their looks. Going by that, however cool this candyfloss flick might appear, it’s still shallow on content.

    39

    Jan 2010
  • Paa

    At times you should not be yourself to show the world what you really are. Amitabh Bachchan does just that and shows the world he is the Paa of performing arts.

    79

    Dec 2009
  • De Dana Dan

    ...a quickie flick which is hastily written, rapidly filmed, has swift storytelling and speeding characters giving you no time to breathe, gasp, feel, absorb react or relate.

    49

    Nov 2009