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May 2010
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Housefull
Sketchily written, awkwardly directed, and devoid of a catchy music score, this brainbasher leaves you exhausted and exasperated...
Apr 2010
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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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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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Pankh
...is fiercely individualistic cinema. Those who support for edgy, mind-pubbing cinema, should check it out immediately…
Apr 2010
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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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Lahore
...this Indo-Pak treatise may have been wah-wahed at film festivals, but all said and seen just about makes it to a notch above the average.
Mar 2010
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Karthik Calling Karthik
Farhan Akhtar, almost in every frame, has a likeable screen presence and acts competently. Still KCK adds up to little more than a wrong number.
Feb 2010
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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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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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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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Rocket Singh
...laboured, old-fashioned harangue about why honesty is the best policy...
Dec 2009
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Kurbaan
Clearly the motive for such movies is sheer profit. Who cares about responsible cinema? Certainly not Johar who plays with faith and terrorism as if they were toys, absolutely designer.
Nov 2009
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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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Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
Without Ranbir Kapoor, of course, this one would have been a mere ajab movie. He brings the much-needed underlining of ghazab to it.
Nov 2009
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Jail
Get real, appreciate Jail for being as rough, real and dammit, outspoken. Sorry guys, want to..however it’s anything but.
Nov 2009
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London Dreams
...is a head-clangier, lengthier than your lengthiest yawn, and totally destroyed by a story-script which is about as convincing as a technicolour zebra.
Nov 2009