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Zokkomon
Here's some advice: respect your audience and spend some serious money producing a good script.
Apr 2011
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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
...is thirty minutes too long, predictable, and is nowhere near as good as Zoya Akhtar's debut film. But it is gorgeous looking and has some noteworthy moments...
Jul 2011
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Zanjeer
"It is better to fail at originality than to succeed in imitation." Zanjeer manages neither.
Sep 2013
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Yeh Khula Aasmaan
...nosedives into preachy territory that borders on boring and never quite recovers.
May 2012
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Let's just say if your expectations are in check, you won't be disappointed.
May 2013
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Yeh Dooriyan
What should've been a sensitive, realistic tale that captured the issue it tries to highlight ends up being an invitation for a long nap.
Aug 2011
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Will You Marry Me?
If only the makers had stuck to a single genre - either romance or drama or comedy and not this foolishly ambitious all encompassing idea of Will You Marry Me?, would have been a better film to watch.
Mar 2012
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What The Fish
What the Fish's wacky brand of humor works half the time but confounds in equal measure. It touches no chords and remains consciously superficial but it does have an ensemble that has clicked in a story oddly fresh in these times.
Dec 2013
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War Chhod Na Yaar
The good thing about War Chhod Na Yaar is that it satirises the Indo-Pak border standoff, pokes (tongue-firmly-in-cheek) fun at everyone concerned and delivers a message that war benefits all the wrong people. The problem is that it fails to sustain its attitude...
Oct 2013
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Vishwaroop
...the film is of a massive scale, well shot, the action set pieces are up to scratch; but it feels long, is occasionally tedious and performances are way too over the top.
Feb 2013
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Sep 2013
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The Forest
...has a complex thought, an extraordinary setting, and a noble intent but it ultimately fails to fulfill any of this tremendous potential.
May 2012
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The Dirty Picture
Balan is The Dirty Picture. From the aperitif to the dessert. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't do her justice.
Dec 2011
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The Attacks Of 26/11
But it is RGV who has the last laugh as he guilt-trips you into standing up through his reversescrolling end titles in memory of the lives lost in 26/11. And even though you’ve battled through this personal assault of a film, you have no option but to comply.
Mar 2013
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Thank You
This film is bad by even Anees Bazmee's standards. This is personal regression in a string of regressive movies.
Apr 2011
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Tezz
If it weren’t entirely inspired (remade? ripped-off?) by The Bullet Train and Speed, I’d have been happy to give Tezz more credit, but two stars is how it chugs.
Apr 2012
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Teri Meri Kahaani
The song situations are absurd, the writing is mediocre and funny when it's not supposed to be, there's hardly an original idea, and the performances are on auto-pilot...
Jun 2012
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Talaash
if you’re going to watch Talaash solely to understand “what’s the suspense about” you’re going to be disappointed. Try and empathise instead with the characters. Reward then, will look for and find you.
Dec 2012
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Table No. 21
Concept-driven maybe, but Table No. 21 remains, at the end, only that - a good concept on paper that is never quite realised in its execution: whether it is in the writing, directing, or acting departments.
Jan 2013
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Student Of The Year
I don't suppose Student of the Year will end up as film of the year, but Karan Johar is definitely in the running for a permanent Mr Bollywood title.
Oct 2012
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May 2011
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Special 26
Despite its drawbacks, in the end Special 26 is a period heist film that Bollywood can be proud and has a high entertainment-quotient.
Feb 2013
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Soundtrack
I'd have been happy to rate this movie higher had it been entirely original. Even so, the choice of film to remake is commendable simply because it is not your usual cup of tea.
Oct 2011