An archive of Hindi movie reviews and ratings from 2010 to 2020.

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Manisha Lakhe

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Number of reviews
270
Average rating
37

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  • Airlift

    Watch this movie, because a story of a rescue of this scale needs to be told. Watch this movie because we need more everyday hero tales...

    49

    Jan 2016
  • Stree

    ...the film swings from fun to tedious and then piques your interest in the horror and lets it fizzle out, making the whole experience like finding that your expensive coffee is only froth and no brew.

    49

    Aug 2018
  • Family Of Thakurganj

    A veritable smorgasbord of character actors who are individually good and often are all crammed together in a hotch-potch revenge and double cross drama where the motives are so blurred that you don't care.

    49

    Jul 2019
  • Ok Jaanu

    You get so tired of the dialog you wonder why the Tamil version directed by Mani Ratnam was not such a bore to watch. Then you realise that in staying true to the original, there are pauses and silences induced because Dulquer Salman and Nithya Menen have far better screen presence and acting chops than Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapoor.

    49

    Jan 2017
  • Pink

    Two hours and sixteen minutes long moral science lessons on molestation of women and the attitude society still nurtures. You learn nothing new, you haven't seen anything different, you have heard it all before.

    49

    Sep 2016
  • Rustom

    ...should have been a brilliant courtroom drama, but ends up being ridiculous, with the director opting for cheap laughs.

    49

    Aug 2016
  • Kalank

    ...it's such a mish mash of everything from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jaayenge to Casablanca to Lawaris to Bahubali to Camelot and everything in between and presented to you in a language that is so pretentious that it exhausts your patience.

    49

    Apr 2019
  • Mukkabaaz

    ...puts its fist in many pies: boxing, romance, caste wars, defiance and revenge. Anurag Kashyap brings alive small town Uttar Pradesh brilliantly. But the fist through so many pies laced with too many songs becomes a feast too difficult to digest.

    49

    Jan 2018
  • Bharat

    In fact it is so boring, you wonder if 'bhai' has forgotten his fans come to watch 'action' not wimpy comedy. We live through his many jobs and his devotion to dad. It's two and a half hours of being average. Fans want more.

    49

    Jun 2019
  • Pari

    This movie is slow to create the scary world, and even though you enjoy it, it takes too long to actually make you gasp for air. But what an awesome beginning for Anushka Sharma and Parambrata Chatterjee.

    49

    Mar 2018
  • Badla

    ...the film is well adapted, but does feel like the plot is too convoluted, and it goes on and on, even though it lasts only for two hours.

    49

    Mar 2019
  • M.S. Dhoni

    ...we want to know about his growth from getting selected in the team to becoming a captain. We get Bollywood style romance instead and then we begin to look at the time: 190 minutes. Cricket wins, but...

    49

    Sep 2016
  • Force 2

    The problem lies not with the paint by numbers thriller where the good guys are chasing the baddie. The problem lies with giving the villain too much screen time.

    49

    Nov 2016
  • Tu Hai Mera Sunday

    There are some glitches, and the title of the film is weird, but you forgive them simply because you want this life with friends. All in all, this movie is a delightful watch.

    49

    Oct 2017
  • 102 Not Out

    ...if you step away from the casting coup, the loud violins that accompany the moralising and the mawkish sentimentality could put you off. Should have been a Sunday afternoon theatrical production, with a family hug afterwards...

    49

    May 2018
  • Photograph

    The movie pretends to be arty but the patchy story that goes round and round will not work with the multiplex audience. This film should have gone into a streaming service rather than into the theaters.

    49

    Mar 2019
  • Dear Zindagi

    For two hours you put up with too shiny, too happy people holding hands and you're fed up with the hokey counseling sessions. The last half hour actually touches you but it is too little too late.

    39

    Nov 2016
  • 3 Storeys

    It's almost good, and then it isn't because you've read the story somewhere. It's an idea that's not new and yet, a decent effort. Would have been smarter move to put it straight to Netflix or Amazon.

    39

    Mar 2018