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The Accidental Prime Minister
The film is shabbily made even though they get lots of cast to look like people in real life, and skims the events in Dr, Singh's work life. Is this a propaganda film?
Jan 2019
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Judwaa 2
...is louder and bigger and bolder and Varun Dhawan may not be Salman Khan, but he holds his own, both as Prem and Raja. Fun watch for the younger generation.
Sep 2017
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Beyond The Clouds
Majid Majidi comes to India and falls for the poverty is beautiful trap. After that, he simply rolls from one cliche to another and another until you just shake your head in despair.
Apr 2018
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Sultan
...what starts out to be a promising romance between sportspersons (both are wrestlers) soon dives headlong into a horribly predictable tale badly told.
Jul 2016
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Begum Jaan
Unfortunately, Vidya Balan who plays the title role cannot save the hopelessly predictable plot. The film is such a terrible, bloated and tastelessly overdone copy of the Shabana Azmi starrer Mandi (1983).
Apr 2017
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Sep 2017
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Daas Dev
Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's classic but simple love triangle of Paro, Devdas and Chandramukhi is turned on its head and complicated needlessly by setting the story in a lawless, political background in Uttar Pradesh.
Apr 2018
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Bombairiya
It's chaotic, funny but has too many threads which make this non-linear film a tiring watch after a while.
Jan 2019
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My Birthday Song
It's a great attempt. But the film had a long way to go on script level before it became awesome.
Jan 2018
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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.
Nov 2016
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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.
Mar 2018
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Why Cheat India
The film tackles the problem of rampant cheating in these exams but it gets so preachy about a failing system and talks so much, you cannot help but yawn...
Jan 2019
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Traffic
...it becomes so tedious because it tries too hard to infuse the TV drama pace of Kiefer Sutherland's 24 and ends up being tedious.
May 2016
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Ittefaq
If the lead actors: Sidharth Malhotra and Sonakshi Sinha weren't so passionless in trying hard to be mysterious, this film could have been less painful to watch.
Nov 2017
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Omerta
The staccato storytelling style and the constant shift between past and present is distracting at best. Unfortunately there is no emotional takeaway from the story, so you watch the stabbings and the kidnappings wondering 'what was that?'
May 2018
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Wazir
Vidhu Vinod Chopra who is happy to take credit for the original story, should have been merciless when writing the script which goes on and on in the second half explaining itself. Sometimes it is smarter to let the audience use its brains.
Jan 2016
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Tutak Tutak Tutiya
The comedy is silly and physical, and you do laugh at some jokes. But you wouldn't admit to anyone you watched the film.
Oct 2016
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Phillauri
The film has flashes of brilliance, but the tedious sequences go on for so long you think you have aged when you emerge out into the sunshine.
Mar 2017
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Race 3
If you've seen Race movies, then you will know that everyone double crosses everyone else in really tacky disco, hotel settings. Everyone drives really expensive cars that are shown in wild car chases and expensive cars are blown up without impunity.
Jun 2018
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Lucknow Central
The empathy quotient is greater than the implausible liberties taken in the script. A decent watch.
Sep 2017
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Gold
The conflict is fine, the principle characters beautifully etched, but what drags the film down is its predictability and its slow pace.
Aug 2018
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Manikarnika
The trouble is, they try to Bollywoodise it. There's so much glamour and chest thumping patriotism that unwittingly the audience begins to discover flaws.
Jan 2019
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Kesari
The final battle to the death is worth the watch, but when you see religion, patriotism, propaganda and soldiering mix in a movie timed for release during elections in India, you want to cringe but that would be politically incorrect.
Mar 2019
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Jun 2016
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Toilet
...is this film any more than the filmmakers genuflecting to the government? Paying deep obeisance to the Swacch Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India campaign)? That sort of stinks, methinks.
Aug 2017
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Sanju
This is a work of fiction masquerading as a biopic. And Rajkumar Hirani may have violins standing by to manipulate emotions, and he has Ranbir Kapoor mimicking Sanjay Dutt's mannerisms, but the movie remains a vanilla version of a life full of violence induced by drugs, guns, bad company and women.
Jun 2018
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Zubaan
You come away with mixed feelings even though you really loved the idea of 'tumhari zubaan kuch keh rahi hai...'.
Mar 2016
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Mona Darling
A good start to a horror film, but it slowly falls into cliches and is unable to recover. Bollywood has never made worthy to be slotted as 'Horror' but this one makes an effort.
Feb 2017
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III Smoking Barrels
Three stories from the North East part of India will try and help you understand the unique social and political place they hold in the universe. The third one though outshines the other two and should have been a standalone film. It's about elephant poachers. The first two stories then look trite and unwatchable.
Sep 2018
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Mar 2017