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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
While entertaining her audiences throughout, the writer-director (Zoya Akhtar, Luck By Chance), with a firm voice of her own, still manages to keep things artistic, without its pretensions; a lot of times, even poetic...
Jul 2011
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Yeh Saali Zindagi
You leave for home with an exhilarating ride, still reeling in your head -- though not quite the heart.
Feb 2011
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Yeh Faasley
Every film needn't merit a review. Some deserve little reports addressed to loved ones alone; just so they know you're fine, and that you really did survive the movie.
Mar 2011
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Yamla Pagla Deewana
Dharmendra is 75. Given no surgical help, he looks it. Sunny Deol is 54. He doesn’t act it. Their audiences moved on a while ago. Evidently, they never did...
Jan 2011
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Why Cheat India
...it eventually starts descending to such levels of random, thoughtless spinning of the yarn that by the end of it you're not even too sure it's the same film that you had started with in the first place.
Jan 2019
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Well Done Abba
This is Boman’s finest work yet. Truly, well done, both Benegal, and Boman then!
Mar 2010
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We Are Family
...the pathos here is produced not from moments, but from performances alone: a stunning Kajol’s in particular.
Sep 2010
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Veer
...this apparent period film owes its origins less to the genre Hollywood movies. It belongs more to Bollywood of back in the day: a song designated for smokers every few minutes; crispness, hardly a narrative virtue; three hours, the accepted clock-time.
Jan 2010
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Utt Pataang
You’d imagine someone read this script and thought the supposed page-turner would make for another low-budget comic hit. They didn’t bother to apply any cinema at all.
Feb 2011
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Uri
Supremely competent first-time director Aditya Dhar uses these weapons—sophisticated machine guns, grenades, rocket launchers, top-grade fighter aircraft—to hit home with a winning plot, over two hours, 10 minutes of stunningly shot (Mitesh Mirchandani), non-stop, military-action drama, packed with pyrotechnics that appear authentic, world-class, technically kickass.
Jan 2019
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Ujda Chaman
This is a film about lost hair that eventually makes you want to tear your own off at some point.
Nov 2019
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Tumhari Sulu
This film, where Vidya shows up as a vivacious, fat Virar aunty, embodying all the compassions and contradictions within a modern desi woman, is not an exception, by any means. It is really as good as it gets.
Nov 2017
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Tumbbad
...an artsy, gutsy mix of mythology, history, horror, and moral science. Do these elements seamlessly add up for you to naturally feel for the characters in the story? Honestly, no. Does the incredibly strong visual craftsmanship (rare for an Indian indie) satisfyingly guide you into a world hitherto unseen/unknown? Oh, absolutely.
Oct 2018
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Tum Milo Toh Sahi
There’re so many characters, with their own lengthy back-stories; your head spins.
Apr 2010
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Tubelight
...contrary to likely audience expectations, this is a film rather subdued on drama, hysteria, and action, although it remains coherent, entertaining, and sincere throughout. More importantly it does not preach to the choir.
Jun 2017
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Trapped
That 'Trapped' manages to grippingly hold your attention with such an underwhelming setting is an achievement in itself. That it could invade your senses makes it worth every minute, without any break, in the theatre.
Mar 2017
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Total Dhamaal
...this is the sort of deliberately-sasta, kaam chalau comedy that works on simplest set-ups, and pay-offs - or punch-lines - that you ought to be in sync with. Some jokes work - at a pure comic timing level. Several don't.
Feb 2019
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Toonpur Ka Superrhero
The superstar wants to impress his kids. The film wants to impress yours. The human hero fights the cartoon villain as he moves up levels in a video game. It’s all pretty lame.The connect is somewhere lost.
Dec 2010
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Feb 2010
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Tiger Zinda Hai
...at 160 plus minutes, this movie is more than a bit of a stretch (both literally, and figuratively).
Dec 2017
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The Tashkent Files
...this is the sort of know-all, grand con-spiracy theory picture - regurgitating catch-phrases like "presstitutes", "Lutyens Delhi," "fake news" - that emanates from a world-view wholly derived from spending far too much time on social media.
Apr 2019
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The Sky Is Pink
It seems like an emotion that the filmmaker's probably been through, and so wants the world to know. And ponder over. It just stops being just a movie then.
Oct 2019
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The Japanese Wife
...is wonderfully shot, reasonably well enacted, and is sure enough, long (or slow) as hell. Such elements individually draw attention toward themselves because, quite frankly, the script sucks.
Apr 2010
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The Ghazi Attack
The captain of this sturdy ship, or director (Sankalp Reddy), as it were, I'm told, is a young first-time filmmaker from Hyderabad. Now that's the guy to watch out for.
Feb 2017
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The Dirty Picture
Silk (or Balan) concludes – There are three things you need for a successful film: entertainment, entertainment, entertainment. Over here, "I am the entertainment." She is absolutely right, beyond first-rate.
Dec 2011
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That Girl in Yellow Boots
It is, what they call, a quickie: As true for the movie's subject, as for its unsatisfying outcome.
Sep 2011
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Thappad
As a filmmaker with a sharp voice, this is Sinha's third film in a row that knocks open a fissure to reveal the rot within (when it comes to gender relations).
Feb 2020