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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.
Mar 2010
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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.
Nov 2009
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May 2010
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Aug 2010
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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.
Mar 2010
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Feb 2010
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Jail
Compare Jail to Madhur Bhandarkar’s earlier works and you would be disappointed to a degree. Nevertheless, compare it to many other mediocre movies of today and Jail is still a step ahead.
Nov 2009
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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.
Jan 2010
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Knock Out
...only beats around the booth and will leave you conked out. Enter at your own peril.
Oct 2010
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Click
...seems to be as manipulative as photo-shopped images. It simply fails to click.
Feb 2010
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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.
Mar 2010
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Aashayein
...might be having its heart in the right place but doesn’t entirely appeal to the mind.
Aug 2010
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Aladin
Certainly the inspiration is interesting but the execution tends to become formulaic.
Nov 2009
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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.
Apr 2010
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I Hate Luv Storys
If you hate love stories this one’s certainly not for you. Which means this ends up being another love story!
Jul 2010
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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? ’
Apr 2010
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Milenge Milenge
Watch it only if you are just interested to see Kareena when the term size zero wasn’t coined. Else Milenge Milenge doesn’t score much above zero.
Jul 2010
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Nov 2009
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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.
Jan 2010
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Road, Movie
The pacing is sluggish for a road flick and Dev Benegal’s screenplay is bland, lacking basic level drama.
Mar 2010
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Housefull
...slap on your senses as the film sticks to the slapstick genre in every literal sense. It’s shocking that the director feels electrocution scenes are funny even in current times and stretches the sequence with no potential difference from Tom and Jerry cartoons.
May 2010
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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.
Jan 2010
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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.
Mar 2010
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Anjaana Anjaani
The film ends up being a typical romantic comedy which the viewer is no Anjaana Anjaani to.
Oct 2010
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It's a Wonderful Afterlife
With a gluttonous plot and gastronomical premise, Chadha puts a lot of thought in food but sadly there is no food for thought in her film.
May 2010
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Aakrosh
Priyadarshan has constantly been arguing that he switched to mindless comedy capers from meaningful serious cinema because the latter has no takers. If this is the kind of serious cinema he has to offer, we are better off with his comedies.
Oct 2010