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Nanak Shah Fakir
It’s sensibly made; for the most part deeply engaging; and therefore universal in its appeal.
Apr 2015
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Naam Shabana
The filmmakers go back to explore Shabana's back-story. What is it that you might want to know about her? Precious little, by the looks of it.
Mar 2017
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Na Ghar Ke Na Ghaat Ke
Neither a probing satire nor a roaring laugh, neither fish nor fowl...
Mar 2010
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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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My Friend Pinto
These are interesting times. Different voices. Newer faces. Still Bollywood.
Oct 2011
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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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Mulk
...a significant polemic first, and a thoroughly engaging picture, only thereafter.
Aug 2018
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Mukkabaaz
...marks Kashyap's fab return to a realm he understands and expresses best -- with all its flaws, angst and humour, Tarantino-esque pop-culture references, making it all as distressing as it is frickin' fun and real.
Jan 2018
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Apr 2015
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Motichoor Chaknachoor
Where do you go from there? Practically nowhere. The plot is pretty plain and simple.
Nov 2019
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Monica
You can tell, this is a B movie that was suddenly allowed better budgets later in its making.
Mar 2011
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Mom
...while most thrillers tend to overstay their welcome beyond 90-minutes' screen time, this one doesn't feel almost two-and-half hours long. If anything, far too much is going on here. You might question a lot. But so much of it works.
Jul 2017
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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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Mission Mangal
This is actually a pretty sweet, syrupy film, in a schmaltzy sort of way, full of Hallmark card type quotable quotes, on success and life, and all that jazz. To a point that you may even forget sometimes that it's entirely a space-mission movie to begin with.
Aug 2019
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Mirzya
Beneath all the brooding intensity, contrived conversations in hushed tones, and giant splendour of this picture, there lurks such strange hollowness in this movie that you are unsure whether there was ever a script at all to be executed in the first place.
Oct 2016
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Mirch
The four short films, fable-like, with fine actors, eventually turn out to be utterly simple and instantly amusing.
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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Milenge Milenge
...while the film’s main pair may not be friends anymore...they can’t quite disown a new release that celebrates them still. Well. Sucks. I guess!
Jul 2010
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Milan Talkies
...one suspects, much of this movie pretty much remains in the filmmaker's imagination/head. Rest of it, quite honestly, gave me a bit of a headache.
Mar 2019
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Mere Pyare Prime Minister
That you don't feel for anyone in this film (let alone, the issue), with the camera hovering around a bunch of parallel songs/story-lines, aimed to extend a simple short film into a full-length feature, is perhaps worse.
Mar 2019
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Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
...unnecessarily complicated, tiring, lame mess the hero finds himself in, merely to serve the purpose of an over-imagined plot.
Sep 2011
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Mausam
Setting out with a script with better drama, leave aside a plot, could've helped its scale more.
Sep 2011
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Nov 2019
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Margarita With A Straw
The stories eventually boil down to common emotions. As does this film’s. Yes, there is a lot of pathos. But there is much joy. And enough empathy.
Apr 2015
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Manmarziyaan
Together the three actors add incredible zest, flesh, and energy to roles that compel you look at the world through each perspective, and probably even find oneself in it in some form.
Sep 2018
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Manikarnika
Dainty but fierce, Ranaut plays Rani Lakshmibai with the ferocity that suits her character best. She leads the charge not just as an actor, but also as director, the baton she took over midway through the making of this film. One can't help but conjecture if there are really two separate movies here, given that two directors were helming it at different times.
Jan 2019
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Madholal - Keep Walking
...executed amateurishly with poor camera work, jumps in edits, over-acting, that's all.
Aug 2010
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Made In China
Sure the film, rather overtly, tackles too many things in one go. Most of it presented quite directly on a platter/bowl. But underneath all of this is an ingenious subject that so neatly captures the spirit of the current times—Indian entrepreneurship (call it 'jugaad'), and China (basically 'sasta maal').
Oct 2019
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M.S. Dhoni
The fact that the filmmakers really pull it off, I’d say, That’s the way, Mahi way!
Sep 2016