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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns
...you desperately want to like 'Saheb...' and You-Know-Who-All-Returns, because you admire Dhulia’s craftsmanship and social concerns. In vain, this time.
Mar 2013
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Jun 2012
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Rocket Singh
...laboured, old-fashioned harangue about why honesty is the best policy...
Dec 2009
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Nov 2013
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Race 2
Race 2, which is as rusty as a vehicle abandoned in their garage. The Baazigars of yore need to shop for new thinking caps, immediately, and renew their filmmaking licences.
Jan 2013
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Raaz 3
...could have done with a tighter grip in the storytelling, at least one chartbuster track and better art direction...
Sep 2012
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Raavan
...the narrative is choppier than the monsoon sea, frequently disjointed, terribly repetitive...
Jun 2010
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Jun 2010
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Players
...a truly desperate attempt at jamming outdated elements in a two-and-a-half hour jamboree. The audience's intelligence is insulted throughout in this endless horror show of pyromaniacal explosions...
Jan 2012
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Phoonk 2
...doesn’t scare you out of your pantaloons. It merely employs some select words in the dialogue that could send you over the moon. Swoon.
Apr 2010
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Peepli [Live]
For avoiding the route of fantasyland, for narrating a story hooked on fact rather than fiction, and for being remarkably observant about the quirks, anxieties and hopes of the BPL (those subsisting below the poverty line), Rizvi makes an auspicious debut as a director of substance.
Aug 2010
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Pankh
...is fiercely individualistic cinema. Those who support for edgy, mind-pubbing cinema, should check it out immediately…
Apr 2010
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Pairon Talle
Those with a taste for socially concerned and hard-hitting cinema, should grab Pairon Talle.
Oct 2012
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Jul 2010
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OMG Oh My God!
...it is much too self-consciously clever. Worse, it is so raucously narrated that you wish you had vegetated instead on your couch.
Sep 2012
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No One Killed Jessica
...one helluva knockout of a movie, the sort which lingers in the heart and mind long after its 16 reels have ended on a note of hope and interiorised glory.
Jan 2011
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Nasha
...with a far more sensitive and cliché-free screenplay, this 'Nasha' could have been a superior product.
Jul 2013
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My Name is Khan
At the end of 18 reels, you do carry something precious home – SRK and Kajol. They are absolutely electric. Undoubtely, they don’t make’em like that anymore. And never will, which is why MNIK is absolutely compulsory viewing. You may have problems with it. Yet it is a must-must-see.
Feb 2010
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Murder 3
The camera placements and tempo may be cool, but the storyline is as incredible as vibgyor-striped zebras.
Feb 2013
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Mr Joe B. Carvalho
...isn’t likely to catch any sane viewer’s fancy. It’s best deleted as two hours misspent.
Jan 2014
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Miss Lovely
The titillation sought to be vended in Ashim Aluhwalia’s 'Miss Lovely' is strictly of the smirk-smirk variety, suffused with abstractions, cynicism and distractions, great for the international film festival circuit but so off-the-mark and shallow for anyone who has had a smidgen of interest in the C-graders of yore...
Jan 2014
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Maximum
Inevitably, then, that oppressive feeling of the deja phew, incites you to wonder – why another addition to a sub-genre that’s been flogged to pulp?
Jun 2012
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Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola
...does opt for the satirical and faintly surrealistic mode which is commendable. But the outcome doesn’t amount to a satisfying stretch of entertainment.
Jan 2013
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Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana
To a large extent, Luv Shuv… doesn’t work because of Kunal Kapoor’s weak, uninspired performance.
Nov 2012
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Lootera
...with just some more fluency in the dramaturgy and less self-indulgent pacing, 'Lootera' would have been unforgettable, deserving of an unconditional two, instead of a one thumbs up.
Jul 2013