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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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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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It's a Wonderful Afterlife
You cringe in helplessness, to realise, this is just a sad B-movie, merely testing bounds of insanity, secretly hoping for a cult status.
May 2010
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Mar 2010
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For Real
This is the sort of self-produced, independent, low-budget, boutique film that you go to niche film festivals for. They serve as fair audition tapes for better things to come. Hopefully.
Sep 2010
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Jul 2011
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Bhavesh Joshi Superhero
...with some cracker locations and fine camera work otherwise, is anything to go by, you can tell, the chops to recreate a Frank Miller type visual flipbook exist. Except the non-superhero on the screen, like the movie itself, merely moves around in convenient circles, and head-splitting clichés.
Jun 2018
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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
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Sab Kushal Mangal
Honestly, as an audience, when the premise, let alone the story, doesn't work for you, it's best to be distracted by things that do.
Jan 2020
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Pyaar Ka Punchnama
The screenplay, an excellent effort at genuine Indian dick-lit writing, still rings true, in several parts. The solid material isn't however contained enough to make for a tight film.
May 2011
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Kurbaan
What you may brave through then is a flick neither real or serious enough to be a meditation on global terror, nor sweetly suspended and adequately brain-dead to be Die Hard. It’s hard to be both. The hardship shows.
Nov 2009
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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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Laal Kaptaan
...there are way too many scenes to the point that it begins to feel like a stretch, and you merely hope for the movie to get to the point.
Oct 2019
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Road, Movie
The point of this road-less journey remains mysteriously unknown though, given it’s the premise.
Mar 2010
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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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Soundtrack
You can still tell a bunch of Bandroids trying hard. Something genuine, off-centre, Indian, original, and cutting image, will eventually emerge from efforts like these. Until then, I guess, we should just bear with these.
Oct 2011
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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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Patiala House
It's all good, this Patiala peg. Just chug de phatte! We're all about Bollywood and cricket 'n' all, innit?
Feb 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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Jun 2011
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Love Breakups Zindagi
Don't expect too much from this, and I think you'll do just fine.
Oct 2011
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India‘s Most Wanted
Frankly, nothing really happens for you to care enough. And the movie at two hours plus simply appears an hour too long. Ah! Felt like an empty shell -- well, to me, anyway.
May 2019
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Karwaan
Something about this film tells me it's possibly much better written than it's turned out...
Aug 2018
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Saand Ki Aankh
There's something so desperately missing in the general rhythm and tone of this film that beyond a point, not just the audience, even the filmmakers seem unable to decide on whether this is a high-octane melodrama, set to appease junta-class.
Oct 2019
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Rann
This is neither an expose nor an explanation. It’s just an exercise in corniness, not very different from the subject of its scrutiny.
Jan 2010
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Jan 2012
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Bhoot – Part One
It keeps slipping back to normal, after a few jolting sequences thrown in. There's much back-story — as if you're meant to care.
Feb 2020
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Right Yaaa Wrong
We already know who did what, and why. We just twiddle our thumbs through what’s Right Ya Wrong. It’s just trite and long.
Mar 2010