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Gold
...a thoroughly engaging sporting drama with all its necessary ingredients—namely infighting, warring egos, and sharp strategy...
Aug 2018
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My Name is Khan
A commercially successful, massively scaled mainstream film that doesn’t just make a song and dance of it all could certainly change Bollywood forever. Of all, I’m glad Johar also made that move.
Feb 2010
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Ittefaq
I also don’t remember the last time I watched a full-on, no-nonsense, whodunit Hindi mainstream murder mystery in a theatre, with no way to talk about it but to urge you to see it, because that’s the only way we can discuss it any further.
Nov 2017
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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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Kadvi Hawa
But beyond the obvious sell that combines well with original intent, this is, on the face of it, a uniformly dark, grim, thoroughly meditative film on farmers' suicides...
Nov 2017
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Happy Bhag Jayegi
...this wacky flick with some very tacky direction is just about okay. But, perhaps, just okay is not so okay.
Aug 2016
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Red Alert
The movie, dull on drama, doesn’t take a stand. The backdrop is its only purpose, and doubles up for its skeletal plot.
Jul 2010
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Shivaay
You just have to be the world’s biggest Ajay Devgn fan to keep your eyes peeled over 2 hours, 50 minutes, on him, all through a film.
Oct 2016
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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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Ra.One
A year of relentless hustling, hype and expectations inevitably numb achievements, whatever they are, into the obvious. You wish to figure if this was worth this much fuss. Look at the film. The fuss was necessary!
Oct 2011
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Hichki
This film’s intentions—even if multiple, and therefore all mixed up—are laudable, no doubt. But, naah, doesn’t quite cut it, you know.
Mar 2018
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City Of Gold
Never mind a generic trivialisation of an important mill workers’ issue, though that's disturbing enough. You’d imagine at least the family’s backdrop is essential to this plot. It isn’t.
Apr 2010
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A Flying Jatt
I’m merely glad this is at least an attempt at big-screen entertainment aimed purely at kids. How many homegrown options do we have anyway? Most adults, I’m afraid, won’t give a flying duck.
Aug 2016
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Lamhaa
It's not easy to make sense of Kashmir. It's harder still then to make sense of this film.
Jul 2010
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May 2011
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Speedy Singhs
Few funny lines apart, you sense some script-guru's spreadsheet (Syd Field's?) being directly turned into a generic screenplay.
Sep 2011
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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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Housefull
Laughter is the subject; a laugh, being a subjective thing, of course. So, laughing gas is forced into the climax. Canned laughter should elicit even more collective laughs. You want to pause for breath. Your brains deserve a break.
May 2010
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Rakht Charitra – I
Doesn't hurt, if you can take this much of it in one go. There's another installment on its way, if you’re bloodthirsty still. Huh!
Oct 2010
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Aarakshan
...tries so hard to be equally "massy, mainstream". It ends up being neither. A fine opportunity is lost.
Aug 2011
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Lanka
Picture looks real. Posturing is correct. Accents may be inconsistent, dramebaazi's full-on.
Dec 2011
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Jail
What we may have liked to know, like with any story, is something more about the hero himself — his past, his conflicts, his shattered dreams. It could’ve greatly helped with the sorely missed empathy.
Nov 2009
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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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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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Not A Love Story
We delve deeper into neither the young dream-chasers of a scary celeb industry nor chilling procedurals of an infamous police case, let alone the juicy tabloid drama that followed it. The narrative is predictably linear. Tsk. Waste.
Aug 2011
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Jagga Jasoos
...for all cause and effect, this is a completely children's movie. Clearly that part of the message doesn't seem to have been relayed well as I look around at the morning show in my theatre, which is half packed, but mainly with young adults—the lead actor's personal fan base. There isn't a single kid. Now that's a bummer.
Jul 2017
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Dabangg 3
...there's no point intellectualising, analyzing, mentally masturbating over a movie that makes no bones about its severely lowbrow, literally below-the-belt purpose.
Dec 2019
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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