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Zila Ghaziabad
A brutish, senseless and utterly-contemptuous-of-the-audience brain-battering ram is here.
Feb 2013
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Yeh Saali Zindagi
Yup, it does get very complicated but what the hell, still the result is a pretty engrossing mind-teaser. Can’t leave your brains at home for this one.
Feb 2011
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
...may not be in the league of Johar’s 'Kuchh Kucch Hota Hai' or Aditya Chopra’s 'DDLJ' - far from it - but it is a notch above the B-town fare showing at any of the ‘plexes today.
May 2013
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We Are Family
...is an endurance test to sit through. It’s no longer all in the family – meaning warmth, love, sharing, caring - it's all about gross manipulation to coerce the audience to shed a tear or twenty.
Sep 2010
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Vicky Donor
...leaves you with majorly mixed feelings. It's amusing in parts but is largely contrived and occasionally prurient-'n'-crude.
Apr 2012
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Veer
The director does have a signature of sorts (hyper-commercial with a penchant for kitschy sets and sweeping outdoor locales). Here that is wasted on a period piece that has little else to hold it together but Salman Khan’s physique and hair extensions.
Jan 2010
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Tum Mile
While the first film or the heartistic section is scripted, shot and performed marvellously, the second one, is for want of a better word, sorry. Er..soggy.
Nov 2009
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Tum Milo Toh Sahi
You’re glad you saw it for Dimple Kapadia and Nana Patekar. As it happens, the rest of the film doesn’t live up to their participation in the project.
Apr 2010
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The Lunchbox
What stays in the mind at the end of 'The Lunchbox' is pretty much what stays in mind at the end of a memorable set by jazzmen – not their lapses but the heights they scale.
Sep 2013
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The Japanese Wife
It stays with you. Although the tempo is excruciatingly slow and the screenplay repeats lines of dialogue as if they had been written by a squawking parrot, the result is limned with that near-extinct quality in cinema – humaneness.
Apr 2010
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The Dirty Picture
You may have some issues with The Dirty Picture. Never mind because Ms Balan rocks big time.
Dec 2011
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Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya
All said and endured, it isn’t a shudderfiesta. If you have some goodwill for the Deshmukhs, it’ll help considerably.
Feb 2012
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Tees Maar Khan
How you miss Farah Khan's feather-light touch. Here every point and joke is bludgeoned into you as if you were too dimwitted to catch the PJs. For heaven's sake, please don't treat the audience as toddling ninnies.
Dec 2010
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Talaash
Do yourself a favour then: see Talaash only if you believe that Aamir Khan can do no wrong. Otherwise you’ll be left with a sinking feeling.
Nov 2012
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Jan 2013
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Student Of The Year
Unpretentiousness is the key. Karan Johar serves a candy floss package which leaves a sweet aftertaste.
Oct 2012
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Striker
Arora’s effort does leave an impact but the wallop is not as strong as it could have been. A pity.
Feb 2010
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Special 26
The premise of the project had potential, but it comes off as far too fanciful and uneven in its tenor...
Feb 2013
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Son Of Sardaar
...this purported entertainer may be a notch above Rowdy Rathore and Ready, but that’s it.
Nov 2012
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Singh Saab The Great
Snag is that both in the writing and the direction, the topic doesn’t move beyond mouthing the age-old cliches.
Nov 2013
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Shuddh Desi Romance
An absolutely engrossing shaadi caper for starters which fizzles out into a shallow sermon on the institution of marriage, or the lack of it.
Sep 2013
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Jul 2013
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Shootout At Wadala
Gratifyingly, Sanjay Gupta doesn’t glorify Manya Surve. He is presented as someone whose life spiralled out of control, more of a doomed figure than a wonder hero. And that’s what makes 'Shootout at Wadala', quite a few cuts above the commonplace.
May 2013
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Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi
...is worth a visit for its intermittent sensitive moments. And for Farah Khan and Boman Irani who rock… and roll.
Aug 2012
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Ship Of Theseus
Here are three stories well told, signifying independent cinema’s coming of age.
Jul 2013
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Shanghai
Why Dibakar Bannerjee went derivative is a conundrum, especially when he has a 1,001 real-life stories to tell around him.
Jun 2012
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Aug 2013