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Teen Patti
...there is no math in the pedestrian ‘teen patti’ either. They’re merely Diwali card-games played on Dutch bravado and pointed bluff.
Feb 2010
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Jodi Breakers
A movie can either make sense or money. So some filmmakers strongly suspect. Why did we expect anything better here? We always do.
Feb 2012
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Jan 2015
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Radhe
...at the end of a couple of hours (in this case, mercifully, only an hour and 40 minutes), these films are really like political elections. The quality of parties and candidates doesn’t matter. What does is, who won. Or, if it was a box-office success. Which, for the first time, we will never know.
May 2021
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Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
Saawariya for a debut was a poor practical joke on young Kapoor. This humourlessness, if at all, is infinitely sappier.
Nov 2009
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Mittal v/s Mittal
I know the makers of this film. I know legalising genuine pornography in this country will find them a more legit job in the business. About time we did.
Mar 2010
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Loot
Clearly, someone's let open a flick that must have been rightly, safely lying in the cans for years.
Nov 2011
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Teen Thay Bhai
Sometimes, you wish filmmakers wrote their own reviews to enlighten us on exactly what they've made.
Apr 2011
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Freaky Ali
...we thought this was going to be a realistic picture about a poor man from a basti taking up a gentleman’s sport, that’s golf. Well, it partly is. About golf? Maybe. Realistic? No.
Sep 2016
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Khatta Meetha
The jokes, you can tell, have pretty much dried up. No amount of slapstick will wet this pool.
Jul 2010
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No Problem
Actors alone suposedly carry audiences into theatres. A good number of them have been suitably recruited. The proposal is well drawn. Promise of crores have already been made. Why bother making a movie as well, telling a funny story? Anything will do.
Dec 2010
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Miley Naa Miley Hum
“Chirag baba” is the oddly uncomfortable, untrained performer, casually low on body movements, high on screen time; he plays a quiet young heir, given to monosyllables and mono-expressions.
Nov 2011
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Apr 2015
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Bumm Bumm Bole
The producers could’ve saved themselves all the effort and expenses, and just dubbed Children Of Heaven in Hindi instead.
May 2010
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Hello Zindagi
But the picture’s perspective is truly a pedestrian outsider’s. It offers no insight into what kids are really up to.
Mar 2010
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Rascals
This one defies a film. You just lose interest after a while. As do the filmmakers. At some point, out of the blue, they just abandon the whole project...
Oct 2011
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Apr 2010
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Murder 2
I know what most would prefer to know. Yeah. There's homo-erectus Hashmi, and his frisky heroine. That's what really made the first one a huge, hot hit. The leading couple make out. For no apparent reason.
Jul 2011
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Shakal Pe Mat Ja
I peer at the faces around me at the theatre. Of course, you shouldn't go by their looks. Or reviews for that matter. Watch it yourself. Come on, you can do it.
Nov 2011
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Nov 2010
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Tees Maar Khan
...never-ending hit and mess. It's one thing to repeatedly make 'nudge nudge wink wink' sort of ironic nod to films or 'filmies'. It's quite another to know nothing else.
Dec 2010
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Apr 2010
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Crook
This is an "issue-based" film that closely analyses racist attacks against young nihatthe (helpless) Indians in Australia!
Oct 2010
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Dam 999
The visuals, hardly scary, or real, appear for a minute or two max. We continue to be treated to some third-rate plot around an unrequited, horoscope unfriendly romance: "River of love flowing into the sea of separation..." Right.
Nov 2011
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Isi Life Mein
'Cool' is an oft abused, dangerous word. 'Wannabe' usually follows it like a shadow. You have to be careful. The makers of this movie evidently aren't.
Dec 2010