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Befikre
Can a couple turn back from a serious relationship and genuinely remain friends still? The answer to that will always be fuzzy. A lot like this film. But, this is fun. What’s there not to like about that?
Dec 2016
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Bbuddah...Hoga Terra Baap
...the director here's also an unabashed fanboy. So many of Bachchan’s blinded filmmakers unfortunately are.
Jul 2011
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Batla House
Here's what the film compels you to do though. Read up more and more about the case. This is already saying a lot. Last time that happened? Maybe Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday? Woah, now that's a seriously tall compliment.
Aug 2019
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Banjo
...for a film that looks good, but has such little material to justify its screen time — besides a couple of decent songs alone.
Sep 2016
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Band Baaja Baaraat
There's no proverbial chemistry between the leading couple, and that makes for a film of its own. Not this one.
Dec 2010
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Bala
It's almost as if the film has been designed to clear every headspace and leg/elbow room for the leading man Ayushmann to spread his wings and soar. And boy, does he shine—perhaps outshining anything he's done in the mainstream space so far.
Nov 2019
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Badrinath Ki Dulhania
Both the Shashank Khaitan movie and Varun Dhawan's character have very few redeeming features. This seems like a film from the '90s. In the '90s, of course, one could get away with all kinds of stuff.
Mar 2017
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Badmaash Company
The picture’s premise is strong. The setting is solid. The scam’s quite awesome. The friends make for quite a foursome. All are equally endearing. As are their antics. And then the screen flashes, Interval. Everything dopily goes down a slope thereafter, and onward to America, arrogance and all that jazz.
May 2010
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Badhaai Ho
...is just as funny, and as much fun; even as the point of the picture might seem progressively belaboured.
Oct 2018
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Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
...if you took out all the characters and crime-history from Gangs Of Wasseypur, you’ll come close to this. Given what a masterpiece Gangs was, that’s a pretty good compliment by the way!
Aug 2017
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Baar Baar Dekho
...takes so long to get to the point, and leave any impact at all, that as an audience, we merely find ourselves lopping around in circles, not just over the harrowing running time, but within multiple timelines of this slick looking pic as well.
Sep 2016
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Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
What Baahubali does is show the future of Indian big-screen cinema, if it has to survive the onslaught of Hollywood, or move beyond Rajini, Khans, Kapoor, and Kumar, to begin with.
Apr 2017
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Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?
If the belaboured and sporadic humour thereafter isn’t dull enough, they stuff in so many third-rate songs, you feel a bit of a troubled host yourself.
Mar 2010
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Apartment
Accept soft-core pornography in Indian films, and you’ll get rid of poor apologies such as these that have to force in plots, since they can’t just make a semi-porn pic instead.
Apr 2010
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Oct 2010
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Angrezi Medium
...pulls itself (and the audience) into so many different (and opposite) directions, all at the same time, that after a blunt point, you begin to lose interest altogether.
Mar 2020
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Anaarkali Of Aarah
It's hard to come across a performance so gut-wrenchingly real. It's hard to tell Swara from Anaarkali of Arrah, who's thankfully not another 'abla nari' either.
Mar 2017
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Allah Ke Banday
The gangs and their slums are not the same anymore. This would be a minor issue if the picture's setting wasn’t completely the point itself. It unfortunately is. There is no other story. Well. Too bad.
Nov 2010
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Akira
Bored out of my wits, watching these good fellas with hardly anything significant to do, I could only feel a slight kira (insect) up my bum — desperately itching to go home.
Sep 2016
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AK vs AK
Outside of casual voyeurism boxed into a genre flick, what are you supposed to make of this spoof of a spoof (showbiz/celebrity lives)? That's thing about stuff that's meta—you gotta look beyond what you see.
Dec 2020
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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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Aiyaary
...you can't help but come up with conspiracy theories on how the filmmakers could've so horribly lost the plot.
Feb 2018
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Aisha
The atmospherics is complete. The intentions aren’t off the mark. You may like to voyeuristically share a rich experience (with the film’s cast, or crew, in this case). You only wish this sense of outdoor adventure could conceal the blandness of the drama within.
Aug 2010
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Agneepath
Would this movie have the same impact on the young as did Anand's incredible Hum (1991) for the generation before? No. Would this Agneepath suffice still? Yes.
Jan 2012
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Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
This is very much "Bollywood", a style of storytelling that few if anyone understands better than director Karan Johar, whose EQ (emotional quotient) borders on genius levels, if you ask me.
Oct 2016
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Ada: A Way Of Life
Colour tones change with every scene. Background score changes genres. Dubbing is never in sync; editing, abrupt.
Jan 2011
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Action Replayy
Kumar, the hardest working Indian film star (averaging four films a year) remains the only thing to look out for...
Nov 2010